Date of Birth: 
About Robert Malenka
- 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.
Read more at Wikipedia