During the COVID-19 pandemic, Butterfield was named among the world's leading Alzheimer's disease experts by Expertscape, an online base of biomedical expertise.
[2] He attended Brownville Junction High School where he was elected president of the Future Teachers of America Club as a senior.
His research, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), came to this conclusion by comparing amyloid beta peptide in an animal model to the same compound in humans.
[10] Later, he was appointed chair of the Neural Oxidative Metabolism and Death Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) of the NIH.
[15] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Butterfield was named among the world's leading Alzheimer's disease experts by Expertscape, an online base of biomedical expertise.