Alex Marson

Alexander Marson (born June 5, 1979) is an American biologist and infectious disease doctor who specializes in genetics, human immunology, and genome engineering. He is the Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, and a tenured Professor with a dual appointment in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Alex Marson
Born (1979-06-05) June 5, 1979
Manhattan, NY USA
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BA, MD)
Cambridge University (MPhil)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
OccupationBiologist

Marson is best known for his work with Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), particularly for his advances in furthering understanding of the genomics of human T cell function. Marson also currently holds affiliations with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).

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