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

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. He has been a member of the

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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, a title he has held since 1982.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American immunologists 21st-century American physicians Howard Hughes Medical Investigators Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of California, San Francisco faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-physician-stub