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Robert C. Malenka (born June 21, 1955) is a Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory in the Stanford Medical Center. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Malenka's laboratory research with the National Alzheimer's Foundation has informed researchers aiming to find a neuronal basis for Alzheimer's disease. Malenka's main career is focused on studying the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and the effects of neural circuits on learning and memory.
For Malenka's undergraduate education, he attended Harvard University and graduated in 1978. After his graduation, Malenka received his MD and PhD from Stanford University in 1983. While receiving these titles, he also completed his psychiatric residency at Stanford and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
He is currently on the Scientific Council for the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and is on the board of directors for the Brain Research Foundation.
Malenka is also the co-founder of Circuit Therapeutics, Inc, a company which he began working with in 2012. Circuit Therapeutics uses Optogenetics technology to target specific neurons in patients who suffer from chronic diseases and have damaged neuronal function.
After graduation from Stanford Medical School, Malenka earned the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. In that same year, Malenka earned the Daniel Efron Award, given to him by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Malenka's first international award came in 2000, when he received the International Prize in Neuroscience from the Milena Kemali Foundation.
Malenka is a two-time recipient of the Julius Axelrod Prize, one given as a mentorship award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2011), and the other given to him by the Society for Neuroscience in 2016.
CSHL Leading Strand, June 2018
World Economic Forum, February 2016
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