Steven E. Hyman, M.D. is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, a Core Faculty member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. The Stanley Center is using unbiased, large scale genetic analysis of global populations to investigate the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, OCD, and ADHD. The emerging genetics results, fiendishly complex because of the extreme polygenicity of behavioral phenotypes, and the infirmities of current psychiatric diagnostic systems, are being interrogated, inter alia, …
Steven E. Hyman, M.D. is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, a Core Faculty member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. The Stanley Center is using unbiased, large scale genetic analysis of global populations to investigate the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, OCD, and ADHD. The emerging genetics results, fiendishly complex because of the extreme polygenicity of behavioral phenotypes, and the infirmities of current psychiatric diagnostic systems, are being interrogated, inter alia, in many hundreds, soon thousands, of human induced pluripotent stem cell lines reprogrammed into neurons or formed into brain organoids.
From 2001 to 2011, Hyman served as Provost of Harvard University, where he had a special focus on developing collaborative initiatives spanning multiple disciplines and institutions. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He has served as Editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience (2002-2016), as President (2014-2015) of the Society for Neuroscience, and was founding President of the International Neuroethics Society (2008-2013). Hyman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in philosophy and in history, the arts, and letters, an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying history and philosophy of science, and an M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School.
