Marc Tessier-Lavigne Wife: meet Mary Hynes

Mary Hynes is the wife of Marc Tessier-Lavigne  a distinguished Canadian neuroscientist and academic leader known for his significant contributions to the field of neuroscience.

The couple met at Columbia while he was a postdoctoral fellow. They have three children, Christian, Kyle, and Ella.

Mary Hynes, like her husband, has a distinguished career as a neurologist. She is a world specialist on the development of dopaminergic neurons,  which are important nerve cells whose loss produces Parkinson’s disease symptoms.

She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Vermont and her doctorate in neurology at the University of North Carolina. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute and additional postdoctoral work at Genentech. She then worked at Genentech and Renovis before joining Stanford as a senior research scientist in 2003.