Bruce McEwen

Bruce McEwen
Bruce McEwen in an NCCIH interview entitled "Stress and Your Body"
Born
Bruce Sherman McEwen

(1938-01-17)January 17, 1938[1]
DiedJanuary 2, 2020(2020-01-02) (aged 81)
EducationOberlin College (BS)
Rockefeller University (PhD)
Known forAllostatic load
AwardsDale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology, Karl Spencer Lashley Award (2005), Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry (2005), Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (2005), Gold Medal Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry (2009), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Neuroplasticity (2010), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Endocrine Regulations (2017)
Scientific career
Fieldsneuroscience, biological psychiatry, endocrinology
InstitutionsRockefeller University, University of Minnesota
Thesis Energy Metabolism in Cell Nuclei  (1964)
Doctoral advisorAlfred Mirsky
Doctoral studentsHeather Cameron
Robert Sapolsky

Bruce Sherman McEwen (January 17, 1938 – January 2, 2020) was an American neuroendocrinologist and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University. He was known for his work on the effects of environmental and psychological stress, having coined the term allostatic load.

  1. ^ "CV" (PDF). Seminars in Translational Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Retrieved 24 April 2014.