The Team
Executive Committee
Nelson Freimer, MD
Maggie G. Gilbert Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
Director, Depression Grand Challenge
Associate Director, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Jonathan Flint, MD
Professor-in-Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Senior Scientist, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Michelle Craske, PhD
Vice Chair, Department of Psychology.
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center at UCLA
Larry Zipursky, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Biological Chemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Leadership Council
External Members
Garen Staglin
Co-Chair
Mental health advocate and philanthropist, UCLA Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Niccolo de Masi
Chairman & CEO, Glu Mobile
Stewart Resnick
Philanthropist, Resnick Family Foundation
Trustee, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Paul Schaeffer
Philanthropist
Jane Semel
Philanthropist, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Shari Staglin
Mental health advocate and philanthropist, UCLA Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Senator Darrell Steinberg
Mental health-care advocate and author, the California Mental Health Services Act
Campus Members
Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD
Co-Chair
Executive Vice Dean, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Gene Block, PhD
Chancellor
James Economou, MD, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research
John Mazziotta, MD, PhD
Vice Chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences
Victoria Sork, PhD
Dean, Division of Life Sciences, UCLA College of Letters and Science
Peter Whybrow, MD
Director, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Science Advisory Board
The Science Advisory Board, composed of external partners, will review the quality and relevance of proposed scientific and technical approaches. The Board will serve as an advisory resource for the Executive Committee, and there will be annual reviews with the Board regarding direction, content and quality.
David Anderson, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Professor, Biology
Steve Hyman, MD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Former director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health
Rob Malenka, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Huda Zoghbi, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics
Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital