Alejandro De Los Angeles
Alejandro De Los Angeles, DPhil, MPH, MS, is a Filipino-American physician-scientist in training whose work bridges stem cell biology, psychiatry, and the governance of emerging medical technologies. He is completing his MD at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine while serving as a Research Affiliate at Yale University, contributing to research at the intersection of medical artificial intelligence, ethics, and computational medicine.
He earned a BS and MS in Biology from Stanford University and a DPhil in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, where his doctoral research examined calcium channel regulation during human stem cell differentiation. He completed an MPH in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a practicum exploring the repurposing of calcium channel blockers for bipolar disorder. Research appointments at Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Broad Institute further advanced his work on early human development and neural systems.
De Los Angeles has authored more than 40 publications, including first- and senior-author work in Nature and Cell. With Dieter Egli at Columbia University, he co-led research identifying DNA replication stress as a mechanism underlying human embryo failure, published in Cell. His governance scholarship includes a Nature commentary co-corresponded with Robin Lovell-Badge on proposals to extend the 14-day rule for human embryo culture, and a Two-Tier Framework published in Cell with Robin Lovell-Badge, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, and Julian Savulescu, articulating structured oversight for stem-cell-based embryo models. He now extends these principles to medical artificial intelligence, developing safety and accountability architectures for autonomous AI systems in clinical environments. He was named a STAT News Wunderkind in recognition of his interdisciplinary contributions to biomedical research.
Beyond research, he is committed to widening access to medicine and mental health care, mentoring underrepresented students through Harvard Medical School's Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program and founding community-based mental health support groups serving underserved and AANHPI communities.
A Connecticut native, he remains motivated by the integration of scientific rigor, ethical reflection, and compassionate clinical care.