Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday July 19 2023 that he would resign as president of Stanford University after an independent review of his research found significant flaws in studies he supervised going back decades. Tessier-Lavigne, 63, will relinquish the presidency at the end of August 2023 but remain at the university as a professor of biology. Beginning in the 1990s, he has worked at multiple institutions, including Stanford, Rockefeller University, the University of California, San Francisco, and Genentech, a biotechnology company. Tessier-Lavigne left Genentech in 2011 to head Rockefeller University.