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Jonathan S. Weissman, Ph.D.

Jonathan S. Weissman

Dr. Weissman is also Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate physics degree from Harvard College. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Peter Kim, Dr. Weissman pursued postdoctoral fellowship training in Arthur Horwich's laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine. He was recently awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

Jonathan Weissman is looking at how cells ensure that proteins fold into their correct shape, as well as the role of protein misfolding in disease and normal physiology. He is also developing experimental and analytical approaches for exploring the organizational principles of biological systems.

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HHMI INVESTIGATOR
2000– Present
University of California, San Francisco

Education
bullet icon B.A., physics, Harvard College
bullet icon Ph.D., physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member
bullet icon National Academy of Sciences
Awards
bullet icon Irving Sigal Young Investigator's Award, Protein Society
bullet icon Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

Research Abstract
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Prion-Based Inheritance, Protein Folding, and Analysis of Cellular Systems

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"Protein-Only" Nature of Prion Infections
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New Atlas of Yeast Proteins
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Tipping the Balance of Prion Infectivity
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"Promiscuous Prion" Yields Clues to Infection Across Species Barriers
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ON THE WEB

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The Weissman Lab
(ucsf.edu)

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