Alex Marson
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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,[1] 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).[2]
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Alex Marson | |
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Born | (1979-06-05) June 5, 1979 (age 44) Manhattan, NY USA |
Nationality | American |
Education | Harvard University (BA, MD) Cambridge University (MPhil) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Occupation | Biologist |
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.[3] Marson also currently holds affiliations with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub,[4] and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).