Brent B. Stanfield, Ph.D.

Brent B. Stanfield is presently the Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review. Dr. Stanfield received the B.S. degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 1973, and the Ph.D. degree in neurobiology from Washington University, St. Louis in 1978. After a period of post-doctoral training, first at Washington University, then at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, he was appointed to the faculty in the Developmental Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1981 and in addition, appointed Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego in 1982. In 1987 Dr. Stanfield moved his lab to the intramural program of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) where he ran the Unit on Developmental Neuroanatomy in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology. In 1996 Dr. Stanfield worked for a while in the Office of Science Policy at NIH and later that year was appointed Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Intramural Research in NIMH. In 1997 he briefly moved to the NIH Center for Scientific Review where he helped implement the reorganization of the study sections that review neuroscience grant applications. Dr. Stanfield moved back to NIMH in March of 1998 to serve as Director of the Office of Science Policy and Program Planning. He was appointed to his present position in July of 2000.