Elizabeth A. Buffalo

Elizabeth A. Buffalo
Alma materWellesley College; University of California, San Diego
Occupation(s)Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine
AwardsTroland Research Award (2011)

Elizabeth A. Buffalo is the Wayne E. Crill Endowed Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and chief of the neuroscience division at the Washington National Primate Research Center. She is known for her research in the field of neurophysiology pertaining to the role of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe structures in learning and memory and in spatial representation and navigation.

Buffalo received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 for "innovative, multidisciplinary study of the hippocampus and the neural basis of memory.”[1] She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Caesar, a neuroscience research institute associated with the Max Planck Society,[2] and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.[3]

She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[4]

  1. ^ "Troland Research Awards". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  2. ^ "Scientific Advisory Board - Members". www.caesar.de. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  3. ^ "Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives Elects Fourteen New Members". dana.org. Archived from the original on 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  4. ^ "2022 NAS Election".