Solomon H. Snyder
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Solomon H. Snyder | |
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Born | December 26, 1938 Washington D.C | (age 85)
Education | Georgetown University |
Awards | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, National Medal of Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscientist Psychiatrist |
Doctoral advisor | Julius Axelrod[1] |
Solomon Halbert Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist who has made wide-ranging contributions to neuropharmacology and neurochemistry. He studied at Georgetown University, and has conducted the majority of his research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Many advances in molecular neuroscience have stemmed from Snyder's identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs, and elucidation of the actions of psychotropic agents.[2] He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1978 for his research on the opioid receptor, and is one of the most highly cited researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, with the highest h-index in those fields for the years 1983–2002,[3] and then from 2007 to 2019.
Biography
Personal life
Solomon Snyder was born on December 26, 1938, in
Education and early career
Snyder attended
His laboratory is noted for the use of receptor binding studies to characterize the actions of neurotransmitters and psychoactive drugs.
He is also known for his work identifying
Later career
Snyder was University Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry 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 the Society 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 the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 10 most-often cited biologists and he also has the highest h-index of any living biologist.
Awards
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1978): In 1973, he co-discovered the opioid receptor and later identified the existence of normally occurring opiate-like peptides in the brain.
- Wolf Prize (from the President of Israel) (1983)[2]
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1986)[6]
- Bower Award of the Franklin Institute (1992)[7]
- National Medal of Science (2003)
- Perl-UNC Prize (2006)
- Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2007)
- NAS Award in the Neurosciences (2013)
- He is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates and has been elected to honorific societies including the US National Academy of Sciences,[2] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[2] and the American Philosophical Society.[2]
References
- ^ "Solomon Snyder".
- ^ a b c d e f "Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Vice Chairman for Science". Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- PMID 16275915.
- ^ "Solomon Snyder, JHU distinguished professor emeritus and noted neurologist and psychologist, retires". Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience. 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
- ^ "The Lieber Institute for Brain Development - Research & Discovery". www.libd.org. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- American Academy of Achievement.
- JSTOR 2884974.
Further reading
- Johns Hopkins page
- Lieber Institute for Brain Development
- Biography of Solomon Snyder from the NIH Foundation
- Biography of Solomon Snyder from The National Academies
- Money for Brains
- "The History of Neuroscience, The Society for Neuroscience". www.sfn.org. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
- Snyder, Solomon. Science and Psychiatry: Groundbreaking Discoveries in Molecular Neuroscience.
- Kanigel, Robert. Apprentice to Genius.