Valerie M Weaver

Valerie M. Weaver is a professor and the director of the Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration in the department of surgery and co-director Bay Area Center for Physical Sciences and Oncology at the University of California San Francisco (USA). She has been working and leading oncology research for more than 20 years. Her scientific contributions have been recognised by different awards. She was the first woman to receive the Shu Chien Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2022, which honours contributions in the cellular and molecular bioengineering field.

Career Weaver has two bachelor's degrees - one in chemistry from the University of Waterloo and one in biochemistry from the University of Ottawa. She also earned her PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of Ottawa in 1992. After that, she did postdoctoral training at the National Research Council of Canada for two years, followed by another 5-year postdoctoral at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley with Mina J Bissell in cancer cell biology.

In 2006, she moved to University of California San Francisco to assume the position of associate professor in the department of surgery with a joint appointment in anatomy and director of the Centre for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration, where she became a full professor in 2010. She is also a member of two other institutions: the Helen Diller Cancer Center and the Eli and Broad Stem Cell Center. American Society for Cell Biology's Women in Cell Biology Midcareer award in 2014 Fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2014 Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2017 Shu Chien Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2022

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