Ross A. Thompson, Ph.D.

  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis


Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University


Betsy Lozoff, M.D.

  • Professor Emerita, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Medical School, University of Michigan


Eric I. Knudsen, Ph.D.

  • Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, Stanford University


William T. Greenough, Ph.D.

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Read a tribute to Dr. Greenough from his home institution.


Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.

  • Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
  • Professor of Education, Harvard University

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W. Thomas Boyce, M.D.

  • Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco


Silvia A. Bunge, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Psychology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley


Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.

It is with profound sadness that we share the news that Dr. Bruce McEwen, a longtime member of the National Scientific Council, died in January 2020. McEwen’s ground-breaking research and wide-ranging knowledge has contributed enormously to the work of the Council and to the broader understanding of the effects of stress on lifelong development. He will be greatly missed.

Read a tribute to Dr. McEwen from his home institution, Rockefeller University.


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