William Snider

Dr. Snider received his B.S. degree in Mathematics and his M.D. degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), then went on to receive his medical training at the Beth Israel Hospital (Harvard Medical School) and New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, and postdoctoral training in Physiology & Biophysics at Washington University (St. Louis) School of Medicine. He served on the Faculty of Washington University School of Medicine for fifteen years in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology. In 1999 he moved to UNC-Chapel Hill, where he is currently a Professor of Neurology and Cell and Molecular Physiology in the School of Medicine and Director of the UNC Neuroscience Center. He has been named as a Decade of the Brain Lecturer of the American Academy of Neurology, a Presidential Special Lecturer of the Society for Neuroscience, and has been a recipient of a Jacob Javits Award (NINDS). He has served on the editorial Board of the journal Neuron since 1995 and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. His research interests are in the molecular bases of growth factor signaling and axon growth.