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The Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) is a cross-schools initiative launched and supported by of the Office of the Provost at Harvard University. Harvard’s diverse neuroscience community — hundreds of basic researchers and physician-scientists, are engaged in the process of discovery across campuses and disciplines in Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area. Search for labs, principal investigators, scientists, and staff in one of the directories below.
Lab Directory
Harvard’s diverse neuroscience community — hundreds of basic researchers and physician-scientists, are engaged in the process of discovery across campuses and disciplines in Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area. Three major nodes are the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, the Center for Brain Science (CBS) at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge and the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Research Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. Principal investigators from all three of these communities, complemented by other specialists across Harvard constitute the faculty of the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (PIN) — whose students conduct research in labs spread all across the University and affiliated hospitals, including Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass Eye and Ear, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, McLean Hospital and others.
Connectome
Harvard is home to hundreds of neuroscience researchers, ranging from the undergraduate level to the faculty level, working on almost every imaginable aspect of nervous system development, structure, and function—as well as a wide range of neurologic and psychiatric conditions. This neuro community is spread out geographically and administratively, across many different departments, centers, campuses and institutions. The HBI Connectome aims to connect individuals across all of these domains.
Join today! All students, fellows, faculty, and staff conducting neuroscience research or working to support neuroscience researchers are invited to share a profile. Lab heads may also join our HBI Lab Directory.
Humans of HBI
The neuroscience community at Harvard is brimming with talented and interesting individuals, each with their own unique stories on how they got here, what motivates them, what passions and dreams they have, who inspires them and what they do for fun. We aim to gather and share snapshots of these stories in a series called Humans of HBI, inspired by Brandon Stanton’s popular Humans of NY blog. We invite everyone in the neuroscience community at Harvard and affiliated hospitals– students, fellows, faculty and staff, both scientific and administrative—to participate, either by sharing your own story or nominating a colleague. Email us to learn more.
HBI Leadership & Staff
The Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) is a cross-schools initiative launched and supported by of the Office of the Provost at Harvard University. It is co-directed by the chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and the Director of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science. In addition, we are guided by a steering committee of 13 faculty members from across Harvard’s campuses and affiliate hospitals.
Banner image courtesy of Maryna Ivanchenko (Lab of David Corey, Harvard Medical School). Section of a nonhuman primate retina.