Alex Marson was born June 5, 1979 in Manhattan, NY. He is the son of Ellen Marson, a Professor of Spanish literature and former director of Hadassah, and Bernard Marson, an architect. Marson received an A.B. in biology summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2001. He received a master's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2003. Marson received a Ph.D. in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008, under the guidance of Rick Young and Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute.
