Australian biochemist
Anthony Steven Weiss is an Australian university researcher, company founder and entrepreneur. He is the leading scientist in human tropoelastin research and synthetic human elastin. He holds the McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry, heads the Charles Perkins Centre Node in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Sydney after he secured his position by his ex-supervisor Prof. Gerry Wake in the same department.[1][2][3][4] His discoveries are on human elastic materials that accelerate the healing and repair of arteries, skin and 3D human tissue components. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Weiss is on the editorial boards of the American Chemical Society Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Applied Materials Today (Elsevier), Biomaterials, Biomedical Materials, BioNanoScience (Springer) and Tissue Engineering (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.). He is a biotechnology company founder,[5] promoter of national and international technology development, and has received national and international awards, including the Order of Australia.[6]
Awards
He was President of the Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand, elected as Chair Asia-Pacific and the Governing Board of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society[15] and then elected as global President of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society.[16]
Early life and education
Anthony Weiss was born in Sydney, Australia and received his PhD from the University of Sydney working with a department head Prof Gerry Wake who secured his position. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and NIH Fogarty International Fellow.[17] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering,[18] Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW,[19] Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute[20] and Chartered Chemist, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,[21] Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM)[22] and Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2024.[23]
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