The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions, which took place July 19th to 22nd in Telluride Colorado, was the first large-scale international conference of its kind dedicated to scientific inquiry into compassion. The conference convened a unique group of leading world experts in the fields of altruism, compassion, and service to present their latest research. This was the Q&A for the panel Neural Indices of Compassion by Joan Chiao, Ph.D., Brian Knutson, Ph.D., Cade McCall, Ph.D., Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., Judson Brewer, Ph. D., Bill Harbaugh, Ph.D.