Scientific Advisory Board

Michael Brownstein, Ph.D., M.D., Scientific Advisory Board Chair, is Director of Functional Genomics at the J. Craig Venter Institute. He formerly served as chief of the Laboratory of Genetics, NIMH/NHGRI at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He has served as a member of several editorial boards and committees, and is a member of the scientific advisory boards of several companies. He has 29 years of research experience in the fields of neuropharmacology, endocrinology, and genetics.

Marvin Miller, Ph.D., a member of Azevan's Scientific Advisory Board, is the George and Winifred Clark Chair Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. His research group is internationally recognized for its expertise in synthetic organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. Dr. Miller has published extensively, his group has several patents, and he has presented over 150 invited lectures worldwide. His research has been fully funded for over 20 years by the NIH, private foundations and industry. Prof. Miller was a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1981-1985) and received an NIH Career Development Award (1983-1988). He has served on the editorial advisory board of several major journals, on NIH study sections, and review panels for several other funding agencies. Prof. Miller has been a consultant for several pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards for NewBiotics and North Dakota Sate Univesity Center for Protease Research (NIH COBRA Center). He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from North Dakota State University, a Ph.D. from Cornell University and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.

Meir Steiner, M.D., Ph.D.

Meir Steiner, MD, PhD, FRCPC joined the faculty of McMaster University in 1981 and served as head of the Clinical Studies Program until 1992 in the Department of Psychiatry at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was Chief and Clinical Director of the department from 1992 to 1996, when he became Director of Research. Since 1988, he has been Director of the Women's Health Concerns Clinic. In addition to his current positions as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University and as Professor at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, he has recently been appointed Adjunct Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Professor Steiner's primary areas of research and publications have been the pathophysiology and psychopathology of mood disorders related to women's reproductive cyclicity. Since 1970, he has been involved in or directly responsible for more than 600 publications, abstracts, preliminary communications and panel discussions. He serves on the editorial or advisory boards of several professional journals and has co-authored and edited several books related to mood disorders in women. He is the editor-in-chief of the Archives of Women's Mental Health.

Professor Steiner is a member of many professional societies, and in 2000 the CCNP awarded him the Heinz Lehman Award for outstanding contributions in neuropsychopharmacology. Most recently, he has been appointed President-Elect of the CCNP. Professor Steiner is the Past President and the current Development Officer of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology. He serves on the Executive Board of The Marce Society and on the Isis Network on "Sex, Gender, Drugs and the Brain" for the Society of Women's Health Research. He has been honoured with The Andre Boivin Visiting Professorship Award from the Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Professor Steiner graduated magna cum laude receiving his MD from the Tel Aviv University in 1968 and his PhD in Neurosciences in 1979 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.