Professor William A. Weiss

William A. Weiss is Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), co-director of Clinical Child Neurology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Co-Leader of the Pediatrics Malignancies Program at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. William is an external advisor to Brain Tumor Programs at Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and at Children’s National Hospital. William’s lab has developed genetically engineered and human pluripotent stem cell-based mouse models for glioma, medulloblastoma and neuroblastoma; establishing these as platforms for biology, genetics, and preclinical trials, in conjunction with analyses of primary human tumors. The lab has a long-standing interest in developmental therapeutics in neural cancers, focused on EGFR, PI3K, and mTOR biology; chemical genetic approaches to kinase function, targeting Myc, and translation control.