Jean Hébert, Ph.D.

Fascinated from a young age by how a single cell forms the whole human body following an innate genetic program, Jean M. Hébert became driven by how knowledge of this process might be used to improve our biological fates and defeat aging. To this end, he first trained as a molecular geneticist, obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, before specializing in the study of how neural stem cells form the brain at Stanford University. He is now a Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he is developing ways to use cell and tissue replacements to repair and rejuvenate the brain.