1. Marc Tessier-Lavigne was formerly executive vice president for research and chief scientific officer at Genentech.
17 Facts About Marc Tessier-Lavigne
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In 2022, the Stanford board of trustees opened an investigation into allegations that Tessier-Lavigne might have been involved in fabricating results in articles published between 2001 and 2008, when he was working at Genentech.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne grew up in Europe from ages 7 to 17, where his father was serving with NATO as part of the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne was the first in his family to attend university.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne received a Bachelor of Science with a major in physics from McGill University in 1980, a Bachelor of Arts with a major in philosophy and physiology from New College, Oxford, in 1982, and a Doctor of Philosophy in physiology from University College London in 1987.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne attended New College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he "first encountered the nervous system and fell in love with it," graduating with first-class honors.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne did postdoctoral research at the MRC Developmental Neurobiology Unit at University College London in 1987 and at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University with Thomas Jessell from 1987 to 1991.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne started his career at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1991 to 2001.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne was a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University from 2001 to 2003.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne cited the firm's "potential to create breakthrough therapies for unmet medical needs" as his reason for leaving academia.
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In 2011 Marc Tessier-Lavigne joined Rockefeller University as its 10th president, succeeding Paul Nurse, who returned to Britain to take over as president of the Royal Society.
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Rockefeller University called Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who supervised a team of 1,400 researchers, the "Board's unanimous first choice for the position".
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne would be the first high-ranking science employee to leave Genentech following its acquisition by Roche in March 2009.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne is a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company, Xconomy.
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On February 4,2016, Stanford University announced that Tessier-Lavigne would become Stanford's 11th president, succeeding John L Hennessy.
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On July 19,2023, after the examination report was released, Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as president, effective August 31, and the retraction or correction of five scientific papers.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne met his wife, Mary Hynes, while he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.