Suzanne Pfeffer, PhD is the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She     received an AB in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in biochemistry and biophysics from the University of California at San Francisco for work studying the recycling of synaptic vesicles that package and release neurotransmitters. Dr. Pfeffer studied receptor trafficking as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford before joining the Stanford faculty in 1986. Her team studies the molecular basis of Parkinson’s disease, with focus on the LRRK2 pathway. Dr. Pfeffer has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is Lifetime Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.