{"id":4396,"date":"2018-07-09T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=4396"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:12:01","slug":"william-snider-md","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/directory\/william-snider-md\/","title":{"rendered":"William Snider, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>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:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Snider+wd&amp;sort=date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Snider+wd&amp;sort=date<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I have developed and taught two undergraduate courses as part of the neuroscience major at UNC: NSCI 421:\u00a0<em>Principles of Brain Circuits<\/em>\u00a0and NSCI 422:\u00a0<em>Genetics of Brain diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Google Scholar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=l-_fRuwAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=l-_fRuwAAAAJ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Affiliations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/psychology.unc.edu\/adjunct-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psychology and Neuroscience<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Neuroscience Center was established in its current form in 1999 when I was recruited as the founding director. 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