Leor Weinberger, PhD
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Title(s) | Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 1650 Owens St San Francisco CA 94107
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Phone | 415-734-4857 |
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ORCID
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Biography Princeton University | Lewis-Thomas Fellow | 2007 | Molecular Biology | University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. | 2004 | Biophysics | University of Maryland, College Park | B.Sc. | 1998 | Biology, Physics |
| 2017 | | William and Ute Bowes Distinguished Professor | | 2016 | | Blavatnik Scholar | | 2016 | | Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes | | 2013 | | NIH Director's Pioneer Award | | 2015 | | American Institute for Mechanical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), College of Fellows | | 2013 | | NIH/NIDA Avant Garde Award for HIV Research (deferred) | | 2011 | | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow | | 2009 | | NIH Director's New Innovator Award | | 2009 | | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Award | | 2009 | | W.M. Keck Foundation, Research Excellence Award | | 2009 | | California HIV/AIDS Foundation, Young Investigator Innovative Development Award | | 2008 | | NIH K25 Career Development Award | | 2008 | | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences | | 2004 | | Lewis Thomas Fellowship, Princeton University | | 1999 | | E. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UC Berkeley | | 1999 | | Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship | | 1997 | | John Prost Award, University of Maryland | | 1997 | | HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2nd Award | | 1996 | | Maryland Distinguished Scholar | | 1995 | | HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellowship | | 1993 | | NIH FAES Fellow |
Overview Dr. Weinberger and colleagues pioneered the study of HIV’s decision circuit and demonstrated that stochastic ‘noise’ in gene expression—Brownian fluctuations arising from diffusion-limited reactions—can drive fate-selection decisions. The lab’s studies identified the molecular sources of noise in HIV, exposed the mechanisms regulating noise, and determined how feedback architectures tune noise for fate selection. The techniques developed for HIV also enabled the lab’s discovery of the first transcriptional accelerator circuit—a high-cooperativity feedback motif that enables signaling systems (e.g. inflammatory responses) to overcome a fundamental tradeoff wherein increased speed generates higher/toxic amplitude. These accelerator circuits in herpesviruses are being exploited for a new class of antiviral target.
Collectively, the lab’s studies overturned dogma that HIV latency was a deterministic cell-driven artifact and instead showed that HIV encodes a ‘hardwired’ latency program that is evolutionarily optimized to harness noise. Gene-expression noise is now acknowledged as a major clinical barrier to reversing HIV latency and curing HIV. These studies laid the foundation for new therapeutic strategies targeting the HIV-latency circuit, including the lab’s prediction and subsequent discovery of noise-enhancer molecules. Noise enhancers potentiate transcriptional activators, substantially increasing their efficacy and ability to activate persistent (i.e., latent) HIV.
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A molecular mechanism for probabilistic bet hedging and its role in viral latency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 07 21; 117(29):17240-17248.
Chaturvedi S, Klein J, Vardi N, Bolovan-Fritts C, Wolf M, Du K, Mlera L, Calvert M, Moorman NJ, Goodrum F, Huang B, Weinberger LS. PMID: 32632017.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields: Translation: HumansCells
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The HSV-1 ICP4 Transcriptional Auto-Repression Circuit Functions as a Transcriptional "Accelerator" Circuit. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2020; 10:265.
Chaturvedi S, Engel R, Weinberger L. PMID: 32670890.
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Noise-driven cellular heterogeneity in circadian periodicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 05 12; 117(19):10350-10356.
Li Y, Shan Y, Desai RV, Cox KH, Weinberger LS, Takahashi JS. PMID: 32358201.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields: Translation: AnimalsCells
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HIV Latency: Stochastic across Multiple Scales. . 2019 12 11; 26(6):703-705.
Hansen MMK, Martin B, Weinberger LS. PMID: 31951580.
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Attacking Latent HIV with convertibleCAR-T Cells, a Highly Adaptable Killing Platform. Cell. 2019 10 31; 179(4):880-894.e10.
Herzig E, Kim KC, Packard TA, Vardi N, Schwarzer R, Gramatica A, Deeks SG, Williams SR, Landgraf K, Killeen N, Martin DW, Weinberger LS, Greene WC. PMID: 31668804.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 13 Fields: Translation: HumansAnimalsCells
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Post-Transcriptional Noise Control. Bioessays. 2019 07; 41(7):e1900044.
Hansen MMK, Weinberger LS. PMID: 31222776.
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Cytoplasmic Amplification of Transcriptional Noise Generates Substantial Cell-to-Cell Variability. Cell Syst. 2018 10 24; 7(4):384-397.e6.
Hansen MMK, Desai RV, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. PMID: 30243562.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 10 Fields: Translation: HumansAnimalsCells
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Feedback-mediated signal conversion promotes viral fitness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 09 11; 115(37):E8803-E8810.
Vardi N, Chaturvedi S, Weinberger LS. PMID: 30150412.
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A Post-Transcriptional Feedback Mechanism for Noise Suppression and Fate Stabilization. Cell. 2018 06 14; 173(7):1609-1621.e15.
Hansen MMK, Wen WY, Ingerman E, Razooky BS, Thompson CE, Dar RD, Chin CW, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. PMID: 29754821.
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A Bioreactor Method to Generate High-titer, Genetically Stable, Clinical-isolate Human Cytomegalovirus. Bio Protoc. 2017 Nov 05; 7(21).
Saykally VR, Rast LI, Sasaki J, Jung SY, Bolovan-Fritts C, Weinberger LS. PMID: 29226181.
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Nonlatching positive feedback enables robust bimodality by decoupling expression noise from the mean. PLoS Biol. 2017 Oct; 15(10):e2000841.
Razooky BS, Cao Y, Hansen MMK, Perelson AS, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. PMID: 29045398.
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Fate-Regulating Circuits in Viruses: From Discovery to New Therapy Targets. Annu Rev Virol. 2017 09 29; 4(1):469-490.
Pai A, Weinberger LS. PMID: 28800289.
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Transient Thresholding: A Mechanism Enabling Noncooperative Transcriptional Circuitry to Form a Switch. Biophys J. 2017 Jun 06; 112(11):2428-2438.
Aull KH, Tanner EJ, Thomson M, Weinberger LS. PMID: 28591615.
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Transcriptional Bursting Explains the Noise-Versus-Mean Relationship in mRNA and Protein Levels. PLoS One. 2016; 11(7):e0158298.
Dar RD, Shaffer SM, Singh A, Razooky BS, Simpson ML, Raj A, Weinberger LS. PMID: 27467384.
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The HIV-1 Tat Protein Is Monomethylated at Lysine 71 by the Lysine Methyltransferase KMT7. J Biol Chem. 2016 07 29; 291(31):16240-8.
Ali I, Ramage H, Boehm D, Dirk LM, Sakane N, Hanada K, Pagans S, Kaehlcke K, Aull K, Weinberger L, Trievel R, Schnoelzer M, Kamada M, Houtz R, Ott M. PMID: 27235396.
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Conflicting Selection Pressures Will Constrain Viral Escape from Interfering Particles: Principles for Designing Resistance-Proof Antivirals. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 05; 12(5):e1004799.
Rast LI, Rouzine IM, Rozhnova G, Bishop L, Weinberger AD, Weinberger LS. PMID: 27152856.
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Exploiting Genetic Interference for Antiviral Therapy. PLoS Genet. 2016 05; 12(5):e1005986.
Tanner EJ, Kirkegaard KA, Weinberger LS. PMID: 27149616.
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A minimal fate-selection switch. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2015 Dec; 37:111-8.
Weinberger LS. PMID: 26611210.
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The Low Noise Limit in Gene Expression. PLoS One. 2015; 10(10):e0140969.
Dar RD, Razooky BS, Weinberger LS, Cox CD, Simpson ML. PMID: 26488303.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 8 Fields: Translation: Cells
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A hardwired HIV latency program. Cell. 2015 Feb 26; 160(5):990-1001.
Razooky BS, Pai A, Aull K, Rouzine IM, Weinberger LS. PMID: 25723172.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 84 Fields: Translation: HumansCells
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An evolutionary role for HIV latency in enhancing viral transmission. Cell. 2015 Feb 26; 160(5):1002-1012.
Rouzine IM, Weinberger AD, Weinberger LS. PMID: 25723173.
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Spatial tuning of acoustofluidic pressure nodes by altering net sonic velocity enables high-throughput, efficient cell sorting. Lab Chip. 2015 Feb 21; 15(4):1000-3.
Jung SY, Notton T, Fong E, Shusteff M, Weinberger LS. PMID: 25563937.
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Stochastic variability in HIV affects viral eradication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Sep 16; 111(37):13251-2.
Rouzine IM, Razooky BS, Weinberger LS. PMID: 25201951.
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The case for transmissible antivirals to control population-wide infectious disease. Trends Biotechnol. 2014 Aug; 32(8):400-5.
Notton T, Sardanyés J, Weinberger AD, Weinberger LS. PMID: 25017994.
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Screening for noise in gene expression identifies drug synergies. Science. 2014 Jun 20; 344(6190):1392-6.
Dar RD, Hosmane NN, Arkin MR, Siliciano RF, Weinberger LS. PMID: 24903562.
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Fifteen years later: hard and soft selection sweeps confirm a large population number for HIV in vivo. PLoS Genet. 2014 Feb; 10(2):e1004179.
Rouzine IM, Coffin JM, Weinberger LS. PMID: 24586204.
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Acoustic focusing with engineered node locations for high-performance microfluidic particle separation. Analyst. 2014 Mar 07; 139(5):1192-200.
Fong EJ, Johnston AC, Notton T, Jung SY, Rose KA, Weinberger LS, Shusteff M. PMID: 24448925.
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Altering Stochastic Noise in Gene Expression for HIV Therapy. Biophysical Journal. 2014 Jan 1; 106(2):374a.
Roy D. Dar, Leor S. Weinberger. .
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Structure and Function of a Transcriptional ‘Accelerator’ Circuit. Biophysical Journal. 2014 Jan 1; 106(2):375a.
Roy Dar, Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts, Melissa Teng, Brian Linhares, Michael Simpson, Leor S. Weinberger. .
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Stochastic fate selection in HIV-infected patients. Cell. 2013 Oct 24; 155(3):497-9.
Weinberger AD, Weinberger LS. PMID: 24243007.
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Reply to "Coadaptive stability of interfering particles with HIV-1 when there is an evolutionary conflict". J Virol. 2013 Sep; 87(17):9960-2.
Rouzine IM, Weinberger LS. PMID: 23943740.
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Development of a high-throughput assay to measure the neutralization capability of anti-cytomegalovirus antibodies. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2013 Apr; 20(4):540-50.
Gardner TJ, Bolovan-Fritts C, Teng MW, Redmann V, Kraus TA, Sperling R, Moran T, Britt W, Weinberger LS, Tortorella D. PMID: 23389931.
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An Endogenous Accelerator for Viral Gene Expression Confers a Fitness Advantage. Cell. 2013 Feb 1; 152(5):1195.
Melissa W. Teng, Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts, Roy D. Dar, Andrew Womack, Michael L. Simpson, Thomas Shenk, Leor S. Weinberger. .
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The quantitative theory of within-host viral evolution. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2013 Jan 16; 2013(01):p01009.
Igor M Rouzine, Leor S Weinberger. .
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An endogenous accelerator for viral gene expression confers a fitness advantage. Cell. 2012 Dec 21; 151(7):1569-80.
Teng MW, Bolovan-Fritts C, Dar RD, Womack A, Simpson ML, Shenk T, Weinberger LS. PMID: 23260143.
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Design requirements for interfering particles to maintain coadaptive stability with HIV-1. J Virol. 2013 Feb; 87(4):2081-93.
Rouzine IM, Weinberger LS. PMID: 23221552.
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Microwell devices with finger-like channels for long-term imaging of HIV-1 expression kinetics in primary human lymphocytes. Lab Chip. 2012 Nov 07; 12(21):4305-12.
Razooky BS, Gutierrez E, Terry VH, Spina CA, Groisman A, Weinberger LS. PMID: 22976503.
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Transcriptional burst frequency and burst size are equally modulated across the human genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Oct 23; 109(43):17454-9.
Dar RD, Razooky BS, Singh A, Trimeloni TV, McCollum JM, Cox CD, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. PMID: 23064634.
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BET bromodomain-targeting compounds reactivate HIV from latency via a Tat-independent mechanism. . 2013 Feb 01; 12(3):452-62.
Boehm D, Calvanese V, Dar RD, Xing S, Schroeder S, Martins L, Aull K, Li PC, Planelles V, Bradner JE, Zhou MM, Siliciano RF, Weinberger L, Verdin E, Ott M. PMID: 23255218.
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Dynamics of protein noise can distinguish between alternate sources of gene-expression variability. Mol Syst Biol. 2012; 8:607.
Singh A, Razooky BS, Dar RD, Weinberger LS. PMID: 22929617.
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Autonomous targeting of infectious superspreaders using engineered transmissible therapies. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Mar; 7(3):e1002015.
Metzger VT, Lloyd-Smith JO, Weinberger LS. PMID: 21483468.
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Lentiviral vectors to study stochastic noise in gene expression. Methods Enzymol. 2011; 497:603-22.
Franz K, Singh A, Weinberger LS. PMID: 21601105.
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Mapping the architecture of the HIV-1 Tat circuit: A decision-making circuit that lacks bistability and exploits stochastic noise. Methods. 2011 Jan; 53(1):68-77.
Razooky BS, Weinberger LS. PMID: 21167940.
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Transcriptional bursting from the HIV-1 promoter is a significant source of stochastic noise in HIV-1 gene expression. Biophys J. 2010 Apr 21; 98(8):L32-4.
Singh A, Razooky B, Cox CD, Simpson ML, Weinberger LS. PMID: 20409455.
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Accelerated immunodeficiency by anti-CCR5 treatment in HIV infection. PLoS Comput Biol. 2009 Aug; 5(8):e1000467.
Weinberger AD, Perelson AS, Ribeiro RM, Weinberger LS. PMID: 19680436.
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Stochastic gene expression as a molecular switch for viral latency. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2009 Aug; 12(4):460-6.
Singh A, Weinberger LS. PMID: 19595626.
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Negative Feedback Speeds Transcriptional Response-Time In Human Cytomegalovirus. Biophysical Journal. 2009 Feb 1; 96(3):305a.
Melissa L. Wong, Cynthia Bolovan-Fritts, Leor S. Weinberger. .
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Transient-mediated fate determination in a transcriptional circuit of HIV. Nat Genet. 2008 Apr; 40(4):466-70.
Weinberger LS, Dar RD, Simpson ML. PMID: 18344999.
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An HIV feedback resistor: auto-regulatory circuit deactivator and noise buffer. PLoS Biol. 2007 Jan; 5(1):e9.
Weinberger LS, Shenk T. PMID: 17194214.
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Stochastic gene expression in a lentiviral positive-feedback loop: HIV-1 Tat fluctuations drive phenotypic diversity. Cell. 2005 Jul 29; 122(2):169-82.
Weinberger LS, Burnett JC, Toettcher JE, Arkin AP, Schaffer DV. PMID: 16051143.
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Theoretical design of a gene therapy to prevent AIDS but not human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. J Virol. 2003 Sep; 77(18):10028-36.
Weinberger LS, Schaffer DV, Arkin AP. PMID: 12941913.
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Early hepatitis C viral kinetics correlate with long-term outcome in patients receiving high dose induction followed by combination interferon and ribavirin therapy. J Hepatol. 2002 Jul; 37(1):124-30.
Rosen HR, Ribeiro RR, Weinberger L, Wolf S, Chung M, Gretch DR, Perelson AS. PMID: 12076871.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 7 Fields: Translation: HumansCellsCTClinical Trials
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Increased turnover of T lymphocytes in HIV-1 infection and its reduction by antiretroviral therapy. J Exp Med. 2001 Nov 05; 194(9):1277-87.
Mohri H, Perelson AS, Tung K, Ribeiro RM, Ramratnam B, Markowitz M, Kost R, Hurley A, Weinberger L, Cesar D, Hellerstein MK, Ho DD. PMID: 11696593.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 122 Fields: Translation: HumansCells
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Different turnover rate of hepatitis C virus clearance by different treatment regimen using interferon-beta. J Hepatol. 2000 Aug; 33(2):313-22.
Shiratori Y, Perelson AS, Weinberger L, Imazeki F, Yokosuka O, Nakata R, Ihori M, Hirota K, Ono N, Kuroda H, Motojima T, Nishigaki M, Omata M. PMID: 10952250.
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Rapid turnover rate of hepatitis C virus clearance by the twice-a-day treatment regimen using interferon-beta. Gastroenterology. 2000 Apr 1; 118(4):a1488.
Yasushi Shiratori, As Perelson, L. Weinberger, F. Imazeki, O. Yokosuka, R. Nakata, M. Omata. .
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Dramatic rise in plasma viremia after CD8(+) T cell depletion in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected macaques. J Exp Med. 1999 Mar 15; 189(6):991-8.
Jin X, Bauer DE, Tuttleton SE, Lewin S, Gettie A, Blanchard J, Irwin CE, Safrit JT, Mittler J, Weinberger L, Kostrikis LG, Zhang L, Perelson AS, Ho DD. PMID: 10075982.
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