Steven E. Hyman

Dr. Steven E. Hyman, MD, is Harvard University distinguished service professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and a core institute member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he directs the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. The Stanley Center conducts global, large-scale studies of neuropsychiatric genetics and follow-up biological studies involving stem cell biology, neurobiology, and technology development in support of translational efforts to identify biomarkers and promising therapeutic targets.

From 2001 to 2011 Hyman served as provost of Harvard University, the university’s chief academic officer, where he had a special focus on building cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations in the humanities, sciences, and engineering. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he invested in neuroscience and emerging genomic technologies, and initiated a series of large practical clinical trials to inform practice. He has served as editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience (2002 to 2016), founding president of the International Neuroethics Society (2008 to 2013), president of the Society for Neuroscience (2015), and president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2018). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, where he serves as a member of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders (chaired 2012 to 2018), which brings together industry, government, foundations, patient groups, and academia. Hyman is board chair of the Charles A. Dana Foundation (NY), and a board member of the Charles H. Revson Foundation (NY), the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering (Geneva, Switzerland), the International Neuroethics Society, and the nonprofit scientific publisher Annual Reviews. In the private sector he is a director of Voyager Therapeutics and of Q-State Biosciences, and serves on the scientific advisory boards of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Brave Neuroscience, and F-Prime Capital. In 2016, he was awarded the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health by the National Academy of Medicine. He received his bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, from Yale College, a master's from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying history and philosophy of science, and an MD, cum laude, from Harvard Medical School.