Our Leadership

The Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) is a cross-schools initiative launched and supported by of the Office of the Provost at Harvard University.

Co-Directors 

Faculty Steering Committee

• Mark Andermann, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and HMS
• Randy Buckner, PhD, Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience, FAS; 
  Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, HMS
• Mike Do, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS; Research Associate, F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Catherine Dulac, PhD, Samuel W. Morris University Professor, FAS; Investigator, HHMI
• Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD, Professor of Genetics, HMS
• Michael Greenberg, PhD, Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
• Christopher Harvey, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
• Erin Hecht, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS
• Pascal Kaeser, MD, Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
• Maria Lehtinen, PhD, Hannah C. Kinney MD, Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research, Boston Children’s Hospital; Profess, HMS
• Jeff Lichtman MD, PhD, Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Santiago Ramon y Cajal Professor of Arts and Sciences, FAS
• Elizabeth Phelps, PhD, Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience, FAS
• Carlos Ponce, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
• Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital
• Amar Sahay, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, HMS; Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
• David Silbersweig, MD, Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, HMS; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, and co-director, Center for Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Naoshige Uchida, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS
• Rachel Wilson, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, HMS; Investigator, HHMI
• Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology & Neurobiology, HMS; Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital