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,^[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]

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 holds affiliations with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub,^[4] and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).

Alex Marson was born June 5, 1979, in Manhattan, New York. He is the son of Ellen Marson, a professor of Spanish literature and former director of Hadassah, and Bernard Marson, an architect.^[5] Marson graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in biology from Harvard University in 2001. He then pursued a master's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2003. Later, he received a Ph.D. in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008.

Marson's research focuses on reprogramming human immune cells, especially T cells, with CRISPR.^[6] The applications of this research are in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, HIV and a wide range of other diseases. In August 2018, Marson was selected as Wired Magazine's 25 Icons of the next 25 Years for his research in DNA programming and genome editing for cancer immunotherapy.^[3]

En abril y mayo de 2020, Marson y sus colegas de la UCSF, los Institutos Gladstone y la UC Berkeley colaboraron en la metaprueba de pruebas de anticuerpos de COVID-19 para verificar la precisión de los resultados. ^{[ 7 ]} Marson apareció en CNN, ^{[ 8 ]} PBS, ^{[ 9 ]} NBC, ^{[ 10 ]} y NPR. ^{[ 11 ]}

Marson es el director científico de biomedicina en el Instituto de Genómica Innovadora (IGI). ^{[ 12 ]} Es miembro del Instituto Parker para la Inmunoterapia del Cáncer y fue seleccionado como uno de los investigadores inaugurales del Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. ^{[ 13 ] [ 14 ]}

• 2016 - Premio de la Sociedad Estadounidense de Investigación Clínica (ASCI) al Médico-Científico Joven ^{[ 15 ]}
• 2016 - Premio a la trayectoria profesional de la Fundación Burroughs Wellcome para científicos médicos ^{[ 16 ]}
• 2016 - Premio al nuevo innovador NIDA/NIH Avenir ^{[ 17 ]}
• 2016 - Instituto Parker para la Inmunoterapia del Cáncer, Miembro del Proyecto ^{[ 14 ]}
• 2017 - Investigador del Biohub Chan Zuckerberg ^{[ 4 ]}
• 2018 - Miembro del Instituto Parker para la Inmunoterapia del Cáncer