Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne FRS FRSC FMedSci (born December 18, 1959) is a Canadian neuroscientist who is the 11th and current president of Stanford University.[1] Previously, he was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and then president of Rockefeller University in New York City. He was formerly executive vice president for research and the Chief Scientific Officer at Genentech. He was the first industry executive to assume the Rockefeller presidency.[2] He is also a member of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Scientific Advisory Board. ..."