FOUNDER & CSO

From as far back as he can remember, he has been fascinated by what we, as living creatures, are made of. When he learned early on that a single cell forms the whole human body following an innate genetic program, he became driven by how this process might be used to improve our biological fates and defeat aging. This interest led him to do a Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, where with Dr. Gail Martin he studied the regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation. Jean then moved to Stanford University for postdoctoral studies with Dr. Susan McConnell, where he focused on neural stem cells and how they generate the neocortex, the part of our brains that we use for our highest cognitive functions. Now a Professor in Neuroscience and Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, his lab focuses on cell and tissue-based approaches to reverse brain aging.