Michael Shadlen


Education

Shadlen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Brown University in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 under the direction of Ralph D. Freeman. Shadlen completed his M.D. at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in 1988.

Career

Shadlen completed his residency at Stanford University School of Medicine where he was Chief Resident from 1991 to 1992 and Clinical Instructor from 1993 to 1994. He pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in the lab of William Newsome before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. Shadlen became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000.
Shadlen joined Columbia University in 2012 as Professor of Neuroscience. Нe is a member of the editorial board for Current Biology.

Awards and honors

Shadlen was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.
Other awards include: