{"id":10781,"date":"2021-08-19T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:57:29","slug":"greg-smith-phd-appointed-assistant-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/greg-smith-phd-appointed-assistant-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Smith, PhD Appointed Assistant Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10782 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Smith\" width=\"289\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped.jpg 1683w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped-957x1024.jpg 957w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped-768x822.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped-1435x1536.jpg 1435w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2021\/08\/Q9A0392_cropped-600x642.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/>Dr. Greg Smith was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective August 12, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Smith earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of Vermont in 2011. He earned a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences-Toxicology from University of Connecticut in 2015.\u00a0 Dr. Smith served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Connecticut (2015-2016) followed by an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Samir Kelada in the Department of Genetics at UNC Chapel Hill in 2016. \u00a0During his graduate studies, Dr. Smith acquired and applied expertise investigating the mechanisms by which various inhaled toxicants affect respiratory tract biology and pulmonary function. He built a solid foundation in inhalation toxicology \u2013 both in engineering and analytical techniques used to generate and characterize inhalation exposures as well as biochemical, cytological, histological, and physiological techniques to measure respiratory responses to airborne agents. Dr. Smith has substantial experience developing systems for <em>in vivo<\/em> exposure to inhaled gases, irritant vapors, and vapor-particulate mixture atmospheres utilizing both the nose-only and whole-body exposure formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Greg Smith was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective August 12, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-smithg","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greg Smith, PhD Appointed Assistant 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