Professor Tony Weiss
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Professor Tony Weiss

AM PhD FTSE FAHMS FRSN FRACI FRSC FRSB FAIMBE FNAI FBSE FTERM
McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology
NHMRC Leadership Fellow
Charles Perkins Centre
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Professor Tony Weiss

Professor Anthony (Tony) Weiss AM PhD FTSE FAHMS FRSN FRACI FRSC FRSB FAIMBE FNAI FBSE FTERM is the McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry, NHMRC Leadership Fellow, and Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology. He leads Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine in the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney.

Awards include the Order of Australia, Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation, NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering Leadership in Innovation, Eureka Prize for Innovation in Medical Research, Australian Academy of Science's Ian Wark Medal, Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering’s Clunies Ross Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Lemberg Medal, Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, Australasian Society for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering’s Award for Research Excellence, Royal Australian Chemical Institute's Weickhardt Medal,Royal Australian Chemical Institute'sApplied Research Medal,Innovator of Influence Award, David Syme Research Medal, Amersham Pharmacia Biotechnology Medal, NSW Commercialization Expo Prize, Australian Innovation Challenge Award, MBSANZ Barry Preston Award, FAOBMB Entrepreneurship Award, Roslyn Flora Goulston Prize, NIH Fogarty International Fellow and Fulbright Scholar.

He is on 14 Editorial Boards, and is inventor on 174 awarded international patents in 23 patent families covering human tropoelastin, which gives tissue its elasticity and enhances the repair of scars and wounds.

He is Chair of Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, was President of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERMIS), Chair of TERMIS Asia Pacific, and President of MBSANZ, and is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering,Royal Society of NSW,Royal Australian Chemical Institute,Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Biology, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, US National Academy of Inventors, Biomaterials Science and Engineering, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine .

Professor Weiss founded the biotechnology clinical stage company Elastagen Pty Ltd which was sold to Allergan/AbbVie in one of the largest transactions ever completed in the Australian life science sector.

The Weiss Laboratory at the University of Sydney is the leading research site for tropoelastin & synthetic elastin biomaterials. Current grants are drawn from Australia and around the world. His laboratory enjoys the contributions of a fine team of competitively placed postdocs, postgraduate students & technical staff.

Specialties: research translation, biochemistry, elastin, tropoelastin, extracellular matrix, tissue engineering, translational wound repair, cardiovascular repair, molecular biotechnology.

For more information please go to weisslab.net .

The Weiss Lab's research focuses on the assembly of human elastic tissue, damage and its repair. The lab is very interested in the amazing, self-assembling elastic protein tropoelastin and the use of synthetic elastin to repair elastic tissues in skin, artery, bladder and lung.

Lucy Arnold

Jade Juejie Chen ​

Roy Chen

Julian Hovenden

Daniel John

Kekini Vahini Kuppan

Julia Ji-won Lee​

Sally Linyang Liu​

Suzanne Mithieux

​Annie Park

Cininta Savitri

Howard Vindin

Ziyu Wang​

​Shixiong Wei ​

Joshua Wong

​Miao Zhang​

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Healthy Ageing, Molecular biology and biotechnology, Biochemistry and metabolism
Project titleResearch student
CRIP1 as a Response Molecule to Tropoelastin and the Intracellular Signalling Transduction MechanismJade CHEN
Regulation of mesenchymal stem cell ageing by extracellular matrix proteinsSunny LEE
Investigating the effect of matrix cues on mesenchymal stem cell heterogeneity and their derivation from induced pluripotent stem cells.Thu Thuy VU
Anisotropic MeTro/GelMa cryogel for tendon regeneration.Miao ZHANG

Publications

Selected Grants

2024

  • Deep imaging for understanding molecular processes in complex organisms, New E, Muellner M, Kaur A, Heisler M, Weiss A, Kilian K, Tuck K, Gunning P, Bowman J, Biro M, Chandrawati R, Kaiser B, Stenzel M, Trevaskis N, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)
  • Biomimetic repair of age-related elastic lamellae damage using targeted nanodevices, Wang Z, Weiss A, SENS Research Foundation/Repairing the Extracellular Matrix

2023

  • A biodegradable blood vessel replacement that regrows damaged aortas, Hume R, Bannon P, Weiss A, Wang Z, National Heart Foundation of Australia/Vanguard Grant
  • Bioprinting and advanced visualisation of novel 3D model systems, Weiss A, Braet F, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)

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