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The prize is named for Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Co-founder David Mahoney.

It honors individuals who have significantly increased public awareness about brain science and disorders of the nervous system.

2018 David Mahoney Prize

The 2018 David Mahoney Prize symposium and dinner, held in New York City on April 18, honored Steven Hyman, MD ’80, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. 

Patty (Mrs. John) Rosenwald with Missie Rennie (Mrs. David) Taylor
Mr. Jerome LeWine and Gail (Mrs. John) Hilson greet Nobel Laureate James Watson
2018 Mahoney Prize Winner Dr. Steven Hyman and Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel in conversation at Symposium prior to dinner
Dr. Gerald Fishbach, former Chair of the HMS Neurobiology Department, asking a question during Symposium
Ms. Sally Johnson Connor and Mr. Stephen Wells
Audrey Amdursky and Joseph Kartiganer with Mr. and Mrs. James Welch
Bob Merrrill, AB ’81 and his trio entertain guests at cocktails
Moderator and Council Member Mr. Ed Rover
Ene (Mrs. James) Greenfield with HMNI Chair Hillie Mahoney and Angelika Angelika (Mrs. Euen) Baird
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel de Maurier with their son Andres Szabo, HMNI Chair Hillie Mahoney, Bob Merrill, and Ambassador Bonnie McElveen Hunter
Steve Hyman and his wife Barbara Bierer with their children Emily and Charles
Drs. Steven Hyman, James Watson and Eric Kandel with Ed Rover
Dr. & Mrs. LaSalle (Ruth) Leffall with Mr. Charles Dana III
HMNI Chair Hillie Mahoney presents the 2018 David Mahoney Prize to Dr. Steven Hyman

From 2001 to 2011, Hyman served as Provost of Harvard University, the university’s chief academic officer. As Provost, he had a special focus on the establishment of collaborative initiatives in the sciences and engineering spanning multiple disciplines and institutions. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and emerging genetic technologies, and also initiated a series of large practical clinical trials that were a forerunner of comparative efficacy studies.

Hyman is president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, past president of the Society for Neuroscience, founding president of the International Neuroethics Society, and previously served as editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine where he serves on the Council. He chairs the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), which brings together industry, government, academia, patient groups, and foundations, and serves on the Governing Board of the National Research Council, the operating arm of NASEM. Hyman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2016, he was awarded the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health by the National Academy of Medicine.

The evening's program included a welcome from Edward F. Rover, JD ’64, chairman and president of The Dana Foundation and member of the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute council, a conversation between Hyman and Nobel Laureate Eric R. Kandel, AB ’52, MD, the award presentation by Hildegarde E. Mahoney, and a dinner.

 

On the Brain lecture series icon.The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute hosts a public lecture series to continue its efforts to educate the public on the latest scientific discoveries in neuroscience and translate how these discoveries are relevant in our daily lives.

 

hmni logo. Since its founding in 1990, the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute has helped advance neuroscience at Harvard Medical School by promoting public awareness of the importance of brain research and by helping to fund research at the School's Department of Neurobiology.