Anthony S. Weiss

Tony Weiss
Born	Australia
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Institutions	University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre, Bosch Institute

Anthony Steven Weiss FRSC FRACI CChem FRSA FTSE FAIMBE FAICD FBSE is a scientist in human tropoelastin research and synthetic human elastin. He holds the Samuel 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.^[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), Biomacromolecules, 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.^[6]

His awards include the Innovator of Influence,^[7] Applied Research Medal given by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute,^[8] Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists & Molecular Biologists Entrepreneurship Award,^[9] Australasian Society for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Research Excellence Award,^[10] and election to the Governing Board of the World Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society.^[11]

Early life and education

Anthony Weiss was born in Sydney, Australia and received his PhD from the University of Sydney. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and NIH Fogarty International Fellow.^[12] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering,^[13] Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute^[14] and Chartered Chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce,^[15] Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,^[16] Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors^[17] and Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering.

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