Staff Profile: Professor Tony Weiss
Professor Tony Weiss is the Founding Director of the Molecular Biotechnology Program (MOBT). He received his undergraduate qualifications in Biochemistry at the University of Sydney, where he was awarded the Roslyn Flora Goulston Prize and ranked first in the Honours list. Upon receiving his PhD, he was made an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, after which he moved to the USA as an NIH Fogarty International Fellow.
He received further awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and was a CSIRO Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, California, USA, before returning to Australia to take up a Faculty position at the University of Sydney. He has twice been a Thomas and Ethel Mary Ewing Scholar. As a Royal Society Exchange Fellow he pursued tropoelastin studies in the UK. He is an Honorary Visiting Scientist in Molecular Genetics at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, a Board Member of the Australian Genomic Information Centre, Member of the Academic Forum, Chair of the University of Sydney Recombinant DNA Monitoring Committee (Biosafety Committee), and a Professor in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney.
His research laboratory collaborates nationally and internationally. Professor Weiss was awarded the Amersham Pharmacia Biotechnology Medal for his work on human elastin, given by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for distinguished contributions to the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He also received the David Syme Research Prize and Medal which is awarded for the best original research work in Biology, Chemistry, Geology or Physics, produced in Australia, during the preceding two years.
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