Solomon H Snyder

Dr. Solomon H. Snyder is a distinguished service professor of neuroscience, pharmacology and psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the founder of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and served as its director from 1980 to 2006. He is world-renowned for his pioneering research in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and the elucidation of the actions of psychotropic agents. Dr. Snyder completed his undergraduate work at Georgetown College and received his M.D. from the Georgetown Medical School. After further studies at the National Institutes of Health, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1966.