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Solomon H. Snyder | |
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| Born | December 26, 1938 (1938-12-26) (age 86) Washington D.C |
| Education | Georgetown University |
| Awards | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize in Medicine (1982) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscientist Psychiatrist |
| Doctoral advisor | Julius Axelrod[1] |
Solomon Halbert Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an Americanneuroscientist who has made wide-ranging contributions toneuropharmacology andneurochemistry. He studied atGeorgetown University, and has conducted the majority of his research at theJohns Hopkins School of Medicine. Many advances inmolecular neuroscience have stemmed from Snyder's identification ofreceptors forneurotransmitters and drugs, and elucidation of the actions of psychotropic agents.[2] He received theAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1978 for his research on theopioid receptor, and is one of the most highly cited researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, with the highesth-index in those fields for the years 1983–2002,[3] and then from 2007 to 2019.
Solomon Snyder was born on December 26, 1938, inWashington D.C. He is one of five children.[2] Snyder and his wife Elaine, who died in 2016, have two daughters and three grandchildren. He lives inBaltimore,Maryland.
Snyder attendedGeorgetown University from 1955 to 1958 and received his M.D. degree fromGeorgetown University School of Medicine in 1962. After amedical residency at theKaiser Hospital in San Francisco, he served as a research associate from 1963 to 1965 at theNational Institutes of Health, where he studied underJulius Axelrod. Snyder moved to theJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine to complete his residency inpsychiatry from 1965 to 1968. He was appointed to the faculty there in 1966 as AssistantProfessor of Pharmacology. In 1968 he was promoted to associate professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry and in 1970 to full professor in both departments.
His laboratory is noted for the use ofreceptor binding studies to characterize the actions of neurotransmitters andpsychoactive drugs.
He is also known for his work identifyingreceptors for the major neurotransmitters in thebrain, and in the process explaining the actions of psychoactive drugs, such as the blockade of dopamine receptors byantipsychotic medications. He has described novel neurotransmitters, such as the gasesnitric oxide andcarbon monoxide and the D-isomers ofamino acids, includingD-serine.
Snyder was University Distinguished Service Professor ofNeuroscience,Pharmacology, andPsychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1980, he founded the Department of Neuroscience, and served as its first director from 1980 to 2006. In 2006, the department was renamed as The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience in his honor. Snyder retired from Johns Hopkins in December 2022.[4]
Snyder is also the Director of Drug Discovery at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Baltimore, MD.[5]
In 1980, he served as the president of theSociety for Neuroscience. He is also associate editor,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. He helped start the companies Nova Pharmaceuticals and Guilford Pharmaceuticals, and has been an active philanthropist.[citation needed]
He is listed by theInstitute for Scientific Information as one of the 10 most-often citedbiologists and he also has the highesth-index of any living biologist.
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