Douglas F. Covey, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology in Developmental Biology, Professor of Anesthesiolgy and Andrew C. and Barbara B. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained a BS from Loyola University Maryland in 1967; a MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969; and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Society for Neuroscience, Endocrine Society, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars; he has received the St. Louis Award, American Chemical Society in 2004; and the Washington University Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, 2021. He is Co-founder Sage Therapeutics. His research interests are in Medicinal chemistry and biology of steroids with an emphasis on neurosteroids.