Susan Weintraub is an American scientist. She is a professor at the

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA, pronounced "U-tesk-uh"), doing business as UT Health San Antonio, is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas Sys ...

(UTHSCSA). She received a BS in chemistry from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

in 1967, MS in chemistry from Trinity University in 1970 and a PhD in biochemistry from

UTHSCSA The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA, pronounced "U-tesk-uh"), doing business as UT Health San Antonio, is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas Sys ...

in 1979. She was the president of the

American Society for Mass Spectrometry The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) is a professional association based in the United States that supports the scientific field of mass spectrometry. As of 2018, the society had approximately 10,000 members primarily from the US, but ...

for the period of 2012-2014. In 2017 she was named a

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(AAAS), and Fellow of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2025. She is an associate editor of the ''

Journal of Proteome Research The ''Journal of Proteome Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2002 by the American Chemical Society. Its publication frequency switched from bimonthly to monthly in 2006. The current editor-in-chief is John R. Yates. ...

''. Her research focuses on biomedical

mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is used ...

where she used mass spectrometry in the early 1970s for quantitative analysis of brain neurochemicals. She has been director of the mass spectrometry core resource at UTHSCSA since 1979.

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