Lawrence Weiss

Dr. Lawrence Weiss is our Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Weiss brings extensive experience in medical and scientific leadership to Fulgent Genetics. Most recently, he was Chief Medical Officer at NeoGenomics where he oversaw the medical and the research and development teams. Prior to NeoGenomics, Dr. Weiss served as Laboratory Director for Clarient Diagnostic Services and as Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Director of Laboratories for City of Hope National Medical Center. Dr. Weiss received his BS summa cum laude and MD summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Surgical Pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford and President of the Medical Staff and Chairman of Pathology at the City of Hope. He is the author of over 500 papers and book chapters, and has authored or co-authored over a dozen books, including an AFIP Lymph Node Fascicle, Applied Immunohistochemistry, Lymph Nodes, and Knowles’ Hematopathology. His laboratory discovered the first molecular evidence linking the Epstein-Barr virus with Hodgkin Lymphoma. He has won numerous awards, including the Benjamin Castleman, Arthur Purdy Stout, and the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology Young Investigator Award, and has delivered more than 250 national and international talks in Pathology, including several named lectureships. He has been on the editorial board of over a dozen scientific journals and is a past President of the Los Angeles Society of Pathologists. Dr. Weiss’s diagnostic interests lie in lymph node pathology, immunohistochemistry, solid tumor pathology, and adrenal pathology.