Paul S. Weiss, PhD

Paul S. Weiss, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
UC Presidential Chair

Languages

English

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Scientific Interests

Dr. Paul Weiss and his students have developed new techniques to expand the applicability and chemical specificity of scanning probe microscopies, to measure spatiotemporal distributions of signaling molecules and to enable high-throughput transformation of stem cells. They have applied these and other tools to the study of the brain and neurodegenerative disorders, the microbiome, blood diseases and cancer.

Highlighted Publications

Pelaz B, Alexiou C, Alvarez-Puebla RA, Alves F, Andrews AM, Ashraf S, Balogh LP, Ballerini L, Bestetti A, Brendel C, Bosi S, Carril M, Chan WC, Chen C, Chen X, Chen X, Cheng Z, Cui D, Du J, Dullin C, Escudero A, Feliu N, Gao M, George M, Gogotsi Y, Grunweller A, Gu Z, Halas NJ, Hampp N, Hartmann RK, Hersam MC, Hunziker P, Jian J, Jiang X, Jungebluth P, Kadhiresan P, Kataoka K, Khademhosseini A, Kopecek J, Kotov NA, Krug HF, Lee DS, Lehr CM, Leong KW, Liang XJ, Ling Lim M, Liz-Marzan LM, Ma X, Macchiarini P, Meng H, Mohwald H, Mulvaney P, Nel AE, Nie S, Nordlander P, Okano T, Oliveira J, Park TH, Penner RM, Prato M, Puntes V, Rotello VM, Samarakoon A, Schaak RE, Shen Y, Sjoqvist S, Skirtach AG, Soliman MG, Stevens MM, Sung HW, Tang BZ, Tietze R, Udugama BN, VanEpps JS, Weil T, Weiss PS, Willner I, Wu Y, Yang L, Yue Z, Zhang Q, Zhang Q, Zhang XE, Zhao Y, Zhou X, Parak WJ. Diverse Applications of Nanomedicine. ACS Nano. 2017 Mar 28;11(3):2313-2381. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06040. Epub 2017 Mar 14.

Alvarez MM, Aizenberg J, Analoui M, Andrews AM, Bisker G, Boyden ES, Kamm RD, Karp JM, Mooney DJ, Oklu R, Peer D, Stolzoff M, Strano MS, Trujillo-de Santiago G, Webster TJ, Weiss PS, Khademhosseini A. Emerging Trends in Micro- and Nanoscale Technologies in Medicine: From Basic Discoveries to Translation. ACS Nano. 2017 Jun 27;11(6):5195-5214. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b01493. Epub 2017 May 19.

Yugay D, Goronzy DP, Kawakami LM, Claridge SA, Song TB, Yan Z, Xie YH, Gilles J, Yang Y, Weiss PS. Copper Ion Binding Site in Beta-Amyloid Peptide. Nano Lett. 2016 Oct 12;16(10):6282-6289. Epub 2016 Sep 15.

Biteen JS, Blainey PC, Cardon ZG, Chun M, Church GM, Dorrestein PC, Fraser SE, Gilbert JA, Jansson JK, Knight R, Miller JF, Ozcan A, Prather KA, Quake SR, Ruby EG, Silver PA, Taha S, van den Engh G, Weiss PS, Wong GC, Wright AT, Young TD. Tools for the Microbiome: Nano and Beyond. ACS Nano. 2016 Jan 26;10(1):6-37. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07826. Epub 2015 Dec 22. Review.

Claridge SA, Schwartz JJ, Weiss PS. Electrons, photons, and force: quantitative single-molecule measurements from physics to biology. ACS Nano. 2011 Feb 22;5(2):693-729.