Paul Coleman attended elementary, middle and high school at Friends Seminary in New York and then obtained an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Tufts.  He next earned a Ph.D. in physiological psychology from the University of Rochester.  After military service at the Army Medical Research Laboratory, Ft. Knox, KY, he completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  He spent several decades as a Full Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine during which time he was Director of the University of Rochester Medical Center Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Director of an NIH Training Program in Neurobiology of Aging.  During this time he also spent time at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  While at the University of Rochester he trained a number of students who are now Professors throughout the United States and Europe.  In 2007 he moved his laboratory to the Banner Sun Health Research Institute.  In 2015 he moved his laboratory to the Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University.