
Paul Weiss
UC PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR AND DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
BIOENGINEERING
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
570 Westwood Plaza
Phone: (310) 825-0317Fax: (310) 267-4918
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Tissue engineering
- Cellular therapy
- Cellular agriculture
- Personalized medicine
- Sensors
- Wound healing
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fGqOzcsAAAAJ
IN THE NEWS
- UCLA Researchers Develop Solid-State Thermal Transistor | EP&T, January 2024
- Paul Weiss: Nature is Often Underestimated as a Source of Inspiration for Nanotechnology | Wired Czech Republic, November 2023
- Savannah River National Lab receives $3 million for hydrogen storage and production research | Yahoo! News, September, 2022
- Tech uses sweat to show stress levels | BBC World News, February 2022
- A step toward a better way to make gene therapies to attack cancer, genetic disorders | Phys Org, April 2020
EDUCATION
- S.B. Chemistry, MIT, 1980
- S.M. Chemistry, MIT, 1980
- Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1986
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- IEEE Fellow, 2021
- IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, 2019
- MRS, Fellow, 2019 > NANOSMAT Prize, 2018
- ACS Patterson-Crane Award, 2018
- Canadian Academy of Engineering, Foreign Fellow, 2017
- ACS Tolman Medal, 2016
- AIMBE Fellow, 2016
- Fulbright, 2016
- ACS Award in Colloid & Surface Chemistry, 2015
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2014
- Gordon Conferences, Cruickshank Lecturer, 2011
- ACS Fellow, 2010
- APS Fellow, 2002
- AAAS, Fellow, 2000
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1997
- ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award, 1996
- Sloan Fellow, 1995
- BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, 1994
- NSF PYI, 1991