About Emugen

Guoping Feng is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Feng is also the Director of Model Systems and Neurobiology in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Originally from Zhejiang Province in China, he received his PhD from SUNY Buffalo and postdoctoral training at Washington University at St. Louis. Before moving to MIT, he was a faculty member at Duke University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of numerous awards for his research accomplishments in neuroscience and brain disorder research.

Robert Desimone is director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience at MIT.  Prior to joining the McGovern Institute in 2004, he was director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Mental Health, the largest mental health research center in the world.  He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of numerous awards, including the Gerard Prize, the top award of the Society for Neuroscience.

Steven E. Hyman is director of the Program for Brain Health at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University  Distinguished Service Professor and Harald McPike Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. From 2012 to 2024, he was director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad. Before that, Hyman served as provost of Harvard University from 2001 to 2011. He was also the director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and genetic technologies.