---
title: "Alexander Strudwick Young"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Alexander Strudwick Young"
aliases: ["Alex Strudwick Young"]
first_seen: "2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Herasight","polygenic embryo selection","Tobias Wolfram","Heliospect Genomics","UK Biobank"]
seek_code_commit: "a619c8a"
---


UCLA geneticist and co-founder of Herasight, a company that uses
machine-learned polygenic scores trained on datasets like the UK Biobank to
predict IVF embryos' traits, including IQ.

Matters to this vault as one of the two named scientists (with
[[entity-tobias-wolfram|Tobias Wolfram]]) who publicly unveiled Herasight
in 2025 — the successor brand under which personnel from the 2024
Heliospect Genomics investigation continue operating openly, including
[[entity-jonathan-anomaly|Jonathan Anomaly]] and Michael Christensen. Named
as senior/corresponding author on multiple polygenic-score papers listed on
Herasight's own site.

## References

- [[claim-independent-journalism-2025-2026-confirms-herasight-continues-iq-embryo-scoring]]
- [[claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel]]