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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 

Venki Murthy standing outside
Venkatesh Murthy, PhD
Director, Harvard Center for Brain Science;

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Murthy Lab Website


David Ginty, PhD

Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School:

Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School;

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Ginty Lab Website

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, 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

Banner image shows staining of striatum, courtesy of David Brann in the lab of Bob Datta