Immediately after the end of World War I, he immigrated to the United States and qualified in medicine in 1923.
[2] After initially working at Cornell University, Weiss moved to Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 1925, and in 1939 became physician-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (which merged to form Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980) and Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at HMS.
[1] He published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, the majority relating to cardiovascular diseases and pharmacology.
[1] He had developed a sudden, excruciating and enduring headache one day, which he recognized as a ruptured intracranial aneurysm; he made it home, where he was briefly cared for by medical staff he had trained, but soon died.
"[4] The schedule includes presentations of posters and papers, the presentation of a number of student prizes, the announcing of a student scholarship, and the presentation of mentoring awards to professors awards; as of the 80th Soma Weiss Student Research Day, held virtually (due to COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts) on 16 March 2020, the awards included:[3][5]