Advisors

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…

Martin Raff is a professor emeritus at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London. He received his medical training from McGill University and residency training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, followed by a residency…

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…

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…

Huntington Willard, Ph.D., is a professor in human genetics at the University of Chicago. He received his undergraduate training at Harvard University and has a Ph.D. from Yale University. Prior to his appointment at the University of Chicago, Willard served as the…