MIT World Speakers

Thomas Insel

Thomas Insel received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Boston University (combined BA-MD program), completed a psychiatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and received research training as a clinical fellow in the NIMH intramural program. He spent 15 years at NIMH before leaving for Emory University where he served as Director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center (1994-1999) and the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (1999-2002) prior to his return to NIMH.

As Director of NIMH, he manages a $1.4 billion budget supporting over 3,000 extramural research project grants in addition to the intramural program.