Dr. Dreyfus has been Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, since 1997. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1976 and received postdoctoral training at Einstein Medical College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her award from the PhRMA Foundation was a 1976 Pharmacology/Morphology Fellowship.

Dr. Dreyfus has worked and written extensively in the areas of neurotrophins, neuronal plasticity, and, most recently, in glial cell biology. She has published almost 100 papers and has presented her work throughout the U.S. and the world.

Dr. Dreyfus is highly regarded as a teacher of Histology and Neuroscience. In recognition of her teaching, she has won the Andrew W. Mellon Teacher Scientist Award, was the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Nominee for the University of Medicine and Dentistry Award for Distinguished Service in Education, 1998, and was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the UMDNJ Foundation in 1996.