Advisors

Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and a practicing anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Margaret Hamburg is an internationally recognized expert in medicine and public health. Currently, she serves as foreign secretary for the National Academy of Medicine and board chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kenneth Kendler received his medical and psychiatric training at Stanford and Yale University, respectively. Since 1983, he has been engaged in studies of the genetics of psychiatric and substance use disorders, including schizophrenia, major depression, alcoholism, personality disorders and drug abuse and…

David Lewis, M.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Translational Neuroscience Program within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh,…

Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., is president of the Rockefeller University. He was previously the chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics at Yale and executive director of the Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics.

Eric Nestler is the Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, chair of the Department of Neuroscience and director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Nestler received his Ph.D. and M.D and…

Arnon Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. He then went on to Genentech, Inc., becoming a staff scientist and a permanent member of the Genentech Research Review Committee in 1996. Over the course of his career, Rosenthal has co-founded…

Carla Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in chemistry. She was honored with a Marshall Scholarship to study at University College London, where she received an M.Phil. in physiology in 1971. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in…

Elizabeth Spelke, Ph.D., is the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies at Harvard University. Spelke received her B.A. in social relations from Radcliffe College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Cornell…

Trained in human genetics, Huntington Willard has focused his research, educational, and leadership interests at the crossroads of basic genetics and genome biology and their impact on society and the practice of medicine. His research group's efforts on the function of the…