Bruce McEwen

Bruce McEwen is the Alfred E. Mirsky Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University, with whom he has been associated since 1966, when he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. Named professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology in 1981, he served as associate dean for Graduate and Postgraduate Studies from 1985-1991 and in 1993-94. He was also dean from 1991-93 and was named the Mirsky Professor in 1999.

Among his many memberships are the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association of Biological Chemists, American Society for Neurochemistry, Endocrine Society, International Brain Research Organization, International Society for Neurochemistry, International Society of Neuroendocrinology, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006, he received the Pasarow Award in Psychiatry. He is a recipient of the Dale Medal of the British Endocrine Society, and in 2005 he received the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the National Alliance for Research for Schizophrenia and Depression and the Karl Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society.

After receiving his AB summa cum laude in chemistry from Oberlin College, Ohio, he earned a PhD in cell biology from the Rockefeller University. Dr. McEwen taught briefly in the Department of Zoology at the University of Minnesota, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Neurobiology in Göteborg, Sweden in 1964-1965.