Weinberger Lab Presentations and outreach
Leor's Presentations
Leor Weinberger, PhD, Bowes Distinguished Professor of Virology, Director, Gladstone|UCSF Center for Cell Circuitry, Investigator, Gladstone Institutes, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, "Identification of a therapeutic interfering particle -- A single-dose SARS-CoV-2 antiviral intervention with a high barrier to resistance"
Leor Weinberger shares a scientific breakthrough: "hijacker therapy," a type of medical treatment that could attack, modify and spread alongside a virus, potentially treating afflicted individuals and slowing the spread of infections like HIV. Now live on TED.com.
Dr. Weinberger discusses a novel approach to defeating deadly viruses. Utilizing genetic engineering, the Weinberger Lab can design a virus to become a molecular parasite of itself. This modified therapeutic viral particle then hijacks viral infections - interfering with virus replication in a cell - and follows alongside the virus wherever it spreads mitigating its harm.
Lab Outreach
Listen to Leor discuss HIV vs. COVID Vaccination on The Bioinformatics and Beyond Podcast.
Listen to TIPping the Scales: Contagious Therapy Against HIV an episode featuring Leor on Carry the One Radio: The Science Podcast.
Listen to Leor’s talk at HIV DART and Emerging Viruses 2018.
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Weinberger Lab Press
New Antiviral Therapy May Block COVID-19 Transmission. PR Newswire. September 9, 2022.
Throwing Drug Resistance for a Loop. PR Newswire. May 12, 2022.
Three Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture. APQC. February 3, 2022.
A New Class of Antiviral Therapy Could Treat COVID-19. PR Newswire. December 9, 2021.
How Close Are We to a Cure for HIV? Gladstone News. December 1, 2021.
Gladstone Investigators Win NIH Director’s Awards. PR Newswire. October 6, 2021.
Research Associates in Their Own Words. Gladstone News. May 10, 2021.
Can We Create Vaccines That Mutate and Spread? TedMed. October 30, 2020.
Herpesviruses Hedge Their Bets to Optimize Survival. Business Insider. July 7, 2020.
Gladstone Investigator Receives an Avant-Garde Award. Gladstone. June 29, 2020.
Gladstone Postdoc Receives Support from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Gladstone. June 16, 2020.
Data-Driven Discovery. Gladstone. April 22, 2020.
Gladstone Institutes Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic. PR Newswire. March 22, 2020.
Scientists See Promising Leads in Battle Against HIV. PEW November 30, 2018.
Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses. Popular Science. June 5, 2017.
To Fight a Virus, Get a Virus: Military Bets on Mutant Pathogen. Bloomberg News. July 14, 2016.
Gladstone Scientists Honored as Finalists for the Blavatnik Awards. Gladstone News. June 1, 2016.
How to Make a Virus Defeat Itself. Gladstone News. May 17, 2016
Cells in Living Things Fight Noise with Noise, Scientific American, May 27, 2014.
Isolated cases raise hopes of cure for HIV, San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2013.
Viruses engineered to attack themselves, San Francisco Chronicle, January 2013.
Piggyback Virus Could Curb HIV Pandemic, Wired, March 2011
Scientists find potential "off-switch" for HIV, News at Princeton, January 2007.
Random Gene Expression May Drive HIV into Hiding, Howard Hughes Medical Institute News, July 2005.