Leor S Weinberger is an American virologist and quantitative biologist.
10 Facts About Leor Weinberger
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Leor Weinberger is credited with discovering the HIV virus latency circuit, which provided the first experimental evidence that stochastic fluctuations in gene expression are used for cell fate decisions.
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Leor Weinberger's TED talk on this novel antiviral approach 20 years in the making has been called a "highlight" of TED and received a standing ovation from the live audience.
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Leor Weinberger received his undergraduate degree in biophysics from University of Maryland, College Park in 1998.
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Leor Weinberger completed his PhD in Biophysics, with a focus on HIV, from University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
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Leor Weinberger received postdoctoral training at Princeton University as a Lewis Thomas Fellow, working with Thomas Shenk and David Botstein.
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Leor Weinberger is the director of the Gladstone UCSF Center for Cell Circuitry and Bowes Distinguished Professor, and he retains his professorships at UCSF in pharmaceutical chemistry and biochemistry and biophysics.
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Leor Weinberger's work has been referred to as "part of what some scientists are calling a 'renaissance' in viral therapy" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Leor Weinberger first began testing this concept when he was in graduate school at Berkeley studying the biophysics of HIV.
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Leor Weinberger is the only person to win the NIH Director's Pioneer, Avant Garde, and New Innovator Awards.