Steven Edward Hyman is Director of the
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the
Broad Institute
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of MIT and Harvard in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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.
He is also
Harvard University
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Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Hyman was
Provost of
Harvard
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University from 2001 to 2011 and before that Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1996 to 2001.
Hyman received the 2016
Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the
National Academy of Medicine
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for "leadership in furthering understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders as biological diseases".
Early life
Hyman grew up in
Teaneck, New Jersey
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and graduated in 1970 from
Teaneck High School
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, enrollment = 1,239 (as of 2021–22)
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. There he captained the wrestling team and was described by his fellow graduates as the "class intellect".
Hyman received his B.A. from
Yale College
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; an M.A. from the
University of Cambridge
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, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science; and his M.D. from
Harvard Medical School
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.
After an internship in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH, 1980–1981), a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital (1981–1984), and a clinical and research fellowship in neurology at MGH (1983–1984), Hyman became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in molecular biology (1984–1989).
Career
In 1989 Hyman was appointed an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard. In 1993 he became an associate professor.
He was also director of research in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1992 to 1996 and served as the inaugural faculty director of Harvard’s Interfaculty Initiative in Mind/Brain/Behavior from 1994 to 1996.
Hyman left Harvard to become the Director of the
National Institute of Mental Health
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(NIMH) from 1996 to 2001. Part of the
National Institutes of Health
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(NIH), a group of agencies that fund and perform biomedical research, NIMH supports neuroscience and the knowledge needed to understand, diagnose, and treat brain disorders.
Hyman returned to
Harvard
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University as
Provost from December 2001
to June 2011.
As Provost, he was instrumental in the development of a number of interdisciplinary initiatives both within and between institutions.
In 2009 he initiated an extensive process of reform of the Harvard libraries,
and he paved the way for the creation of an open access mandate at Harvard. He was also involved in the development of Conflict of Interest guidelines to be applied across the entire institution.
Having stepped down as Provost, Hyman returned to research as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in July 2011.
As of February 15, 2012, he succeeded
Edward Scolnick
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Educati ...
as director of the
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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’s
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research.
In 2000 Hyman became a member of the
Institute of Medicine
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(IOM), which became the
National Academy of Medicine
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as of 2015. He has served on its Board of Health Science Policy, spent two terms on its Governing Council (2012-2018), and represented the Governing Council as member to the Governing Board of the National Research Council (2016-2019). From 2012-2018 Hyman chaired the US National Academies' Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders.
Hyman is a Fellow of the
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a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(2004), a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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(2011),
and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association
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.
From 2003–2017 Hyman was the
editor
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of the ''
Annual Review of Neuroscience
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''. He is a founding member of the
International Neuroethics Society The International Neuroethics Society (INS) is a professional organization that studies the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Its mission is to encourage and inspire research and dialogue on the responsible ...
, serving as its first President (2008–2014), Hyman also served as President of the
Society for Neuroscience
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(2014–2015) and President of the
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(2018).
Research
Hyman's research addresses the intersections between molecular biology, neuroscience, genetics, and psychiatry. Through his own research, as well as in his leadership positions at various institutions, he has emphasized the importance of fundamental research connecting genetics, the brain and behavior; of translating basic research into research and treatments for mental disorders; of carrying out extensive and carefully constructed clinical trials that engage with broad and diverse populations; and of studying disorders in childhood.
New information about the genetics, biology, and neuroscience underlying mental disorders is leading to a rethinking of the classification systems for mental disorders. There is increasing recognition that many mental disorders are quantitative deviations from health rather than categorically different from each other. Hyman works to reassess psychiatric classifications of mental disorders, and has helped to draft editions of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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(DSM) and the
International Classification of Diseases, Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
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References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American neuroscientists
Harvard Medical School faculty
Harvard Medical School alumni
Yale College alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Broad Institute people
Charles H. Revson Foundation
Scientists from New Jersey
Teaneck High School alumni
Annual Reviews (publisher) editors
Members of the National Academy of Medicine