Dr. Greg Smith has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, based on excellence in research.
Dr. Smith received a BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of Vermont in 2011 and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2015. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy (2015-2016) and in the Department of Genetics (Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine – CiTEM) at UNC-Chapel Hill (2016-2021). Since August 2021, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. In 2025, Dr. Smith assumed the role of Co-Director of a new core facility (Pulmonary and Inhalation Research Core) housed in Genetics and the Marsico Lung Institute.