Alex Marson
Alexander Marson is an American biologist and infectious disease doctor who specializes in genetics, human immunology, and CRISPR 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).
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Born | Manhattan, NY USA | June 5, 1979
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. Marson also currently holds affiliations with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).