Steven Edward Hyman is Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hyman was Provost of Harvard University from 2001 to 2011 and before that Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1996 to 2001.

[2] Hyman received the 2016 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine for "leadership in furthering understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders as biological diseases".

[8] Hyman left Harvard to become the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1996 to 2001.

Part of the National Institutes of Health (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.

[16] 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.

[12][10] As of February 15, 2012, he succeeded Edward Scolnick as director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research.