Suzanne Pfeffer
Suzanne Pfeffer | |
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Pfeffer in 2010 | |
| Born | Suzanne Ruth Pfeffer |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS) University of California, San Francisco (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Parkinson's disease |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | The role of coated vesicles in intracellular transport (1983) |
| Website | profiles |
Suzanne Ruth Pfeffer is an American neuroscientist who is a professor at Stanford University. Her research investigates the molecular mechanisms that cause receptors to be transported between membrane compartments in cells, and she is an expert in Rab GTPases and the molecular basis of inherited Parkinson's disease. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Society for Cell Biology.