Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Wayne E. Crill Endowed Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Beth Buffalo is a neuroscientist whose lab focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms that support learning and memory. Dr. Buffalo received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Buffalo joined the faculty at Emory University in 2005, and then moved her lab to the University of Washington in 2013, where she currently serves as the Wayne E. Crill Endowed Professor and
Chair of Physiology and Biophysics. She is also a Core Faculty member of the Washington National Primate Research Center. Dr. Buffalo has received several awards for her research including the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences for her innovative, multidisciplinary study of the hippocampus and the neural basis of memory. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
