The UNC Neuroscience Center was established in its current form in 1999 when I was recruited as the founding director. I served as director for 17 years. During that time, a number of our current faculty were recruited, some of our core facilities were set up, and many of our community events like our annual neuroscience symposium and the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize award ceremony and lecture were launched.
My research focused on roles the neurotrophin family of growth factors and their signaling mediators in neural development. My laboratory was continuously funded by the NIH for more than 30 years. A full publication list can be found at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Snider+wd&sort=date
Recently, I have developed and taught two undergraduate courses as part of the neuroscience major at UNC: NSCI 421: Principles of Brain Circuits and NSCI 422: Genetics of Brain diseases.
