Symposium Speaker

Allan Butterfield

D. ALLAN BUTTERFIELD is the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Biological Chemistry, Director of the Center of Membrane Sciences, and Faculty of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Duke University, he obtained a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship that he took in Neuroscience at the Duke University School of Medicine. Butterfield joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1975, and rose to Full Professor in just 8 years. His NIH-funded laboratory is well known in the field of oxidative stress and redox proteomics (a technique pioneered in his laboratory) applied to Alzheimer’s disease. Butterfield has published nearly 540 refereed scientific papers, many of which are among the most downloaded or most cited in the journals in which they were published. Butterfield has trained 60 PhD and MS students, and supervised over 20 postdoctoral scholars. Professor Butterfield serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and on the editorial boards of 7 journals, including Neurobiology of Disease, Aging Research Reviews, and Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. He has been continually funded over his entire career at UK by grants from such agencies as NIH, NSF, and DoD. Butterfield has received numerous awards including the 1998 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from President Clinton at the White House, being named the 39th most cited and important researcher in the field of AD, the American Chemical Society Southern Chemist Award in 1997, an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Maine in 2002, and being named Chair of the NIH Study Section on Neural Oxidative Metabolism and Death. Professor Butterfield and his wife of 44 years have one daughter and 3 grandchildren.

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