Susan Weintraub

{{short description|American scientist}}

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| field = Analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry

| work_institutions = University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

| alma_mater = University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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| known_for = mass spectrometry

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| website = http://gsbs.uthscsa.edu/faculty/susan-t.-weintraub-ph.d

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Susan Weintraub is an American scientist. She is a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA).{{cite web |url=http://gsbs.uthscsa.edu/faculty/susan-t.-weintraub-ph.d |title=Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D. | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UTHSCSA |format= |accessdate=2019-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419144906/http://gsbs.uthscsa.edu/faculty/susan-t.-weintraub-ph.d |archive-date=2019-04-19 |url-status=live }}

She received a BS in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, MS in chemistry from Trinity University in 1970 and a PhD in biochemistry from UTHSCSA in 1979. She was the president of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry for the period of 2012-2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.asms.org/about/asms-leadership/past-presidents |title=Past Presidents |format= |accessdate=2019-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418213344/https://www.asms.org/about/asms-leadership/past-presidents |archive-date=2019-04-18 |url-status=live }} In 2017 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Fellow of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2025.{{Cite web |title=Fellows of ASMS |url=https://www.asms.org/about-asms-awards/fellows-of-asms |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=Default}} She is an associate editor of the Journal of Proteome Research.{{cite web|url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/jprobs/editors.html|title=Editors of JPR|format=|accessdate=2019-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321202811/https://pubs.acs.org/page/jprobs/editors.html|archive-date=2019-03-21|url-status=live}}

Her research focuses on biomedical mass spectrometry where she used mass spectrometry in the early 1970s for quantitative analysis of brain neurochemicals. She has been director of the mass spectrometry core resource at UTHSCSA since 1979.{{cite web |url=https://news.uthscsa.edu/dr-weintraub-named-2017-aaas-fellow/ |title=Dr. Weintraub named a 2017 AAAS Fellow - UT Health San Antonio |format= |accessdate=2019-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419150042/https://news.uthscsa.edu/dr-weintraub-named-2017-aaas-fellow/ |archive-date=2019-04-19 |url-status=live }}