Alex Marson is Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, and Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Marson attended college and medical school at Harvard. He received a master’s degree in Biological Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Biology from MIT. Marson was a resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and completed clinical training in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. He started his lab as a UCSF Sandler Faculty Fellow in 2013. Dr. Marson is the scientific director for Human Health at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI). He is a member of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and was selected as one of the inaugural Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigators. He is also a co-founder of Spotlight Therapeutics and Arsenal Biosciences.