Alexander LeNail

Alexander LeNail is a researcher at the Wyss Institute at Harvard and founder of the Arcanist Foundation, developing gene therapies for age-related neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS. He holds a degree from Tufts and trained in the Heiman Lab at MIT, where he used AI to identify genes that bolster aging neurons’ resilience — and is now engineering therapies to activate them.