Steven Hyman

Steve serves as director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and as a core faculty member of the Broad Institute. He also serves as a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and has previously served as provost of Harvard University, the university’s chief academic officer. Steve has held various additional roles including as director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, the editor-in chief of the Annual Review of Neuroscience, and president of the Society for Neuroscience. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, renamed the National Academy of Medicine, where he served on the governing Council, the board of Health Science Policy, and chaired the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, and he was founding president of the International Neuroethics Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (President 2018) and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Steve received a B.A. from Yale College, an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.