Advisors

Helen Bateup graduated from the Rockefeller University in 2008 where she completed a thesis with Paul Greengard using genetic mouse models to determine the cell type-specific consequences of dopamine signaling on striatum-dependent behaviors.

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.

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. A physician-scientist, Lifton has pioneered the use of…

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…

Brian O’Roak’s career has focused on developing a “gene-first” approach by implementing new research paradigms and technologies that challenge the genetic intractability of neurodevelopmental conditions, especially ASD.