Arthur Weiss is an American Immunologist who is currently an Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and a professor of microbiology and immunology at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...

. He has been a member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

since 2003. He specializes in studying T cell development and immune responses. His research focus has recently been shifted towards studying autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. He is also a

Howard Hughes Medical Investigator The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, f ...

, a title he has held since 1982.

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