Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Summary

Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who is co-founder, CEO, and chair of the AI biotech firm Xaira Therapeutics. He is also a biology professor at Stanford University, where he served as its 11th president from 2016 to 2023. Tessier-Lavigne was the 10th president of Rockefeller University in New York City from 2011 to 2016, and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.