Weinberger Lab Presentations and outreach
Leor's Presentations
Leor Weinberger, PhD, Bowes Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Cell Circuitry, 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.
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.
Weinberger Lab Press
Bold new strategy to suppress HIV passes first test - Jon Cohen - Aug 8 2024
New York Times Profile - Carl Zimmer - Aug 8 2024
Can We Create Vaccines That Mutate and Spread? TedMed. October 30, 2020.
Herpesviruses Hedge Their Bets to Optimize Survival. Business Insider. July 7, 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.
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.