Valerie Weaver

UCSF, US

Dr. Weaver is Professor and Director of the Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration in the Department of Surgery, with a cross-appointment in Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF. She has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo, and an Honors BSc and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She completed postdoctoral training at the Canadian NRC and with MJ Bissell at LBNL, Berkeley California, and joined the Pathology Department at the University of Pennsylvania and IME before relocating to UCSF. In recognition of her seminal contributions on the biochemical and biophysical properties of the extracellular matrix in tissue morphogenesis and cancer she is an elected fellow of the AIMBE and ASCB and has received numerous accolades including DOD BCRP career development, Scholar and Scholar expansion awards, an ASCB WICB Midcareer award, The Colin Thomson Medal of Honor from Worldwide Cancer Research, an NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator award and the BMES CMBE Shu Chien Achievement Award.