Stanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, California

Professor and Director of the Program in Development & Regenrative Cell Biology (the Stem Cell Program) at the Burnham Institute, coordinator of the Southern California Stem Cell Consortium, a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics, and Director of the Basic Science Program in Neonatology at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on stem cell biology (including human), neurobiology, animal models of disease states, and transplantation. Dr. Snyder is also board certified in pediatrics, neurology (with special competence in children), and neonatology (newborn intensive care) having completed his clinical post-graduate training at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital-Boston. He continues to be clinically active in all these disciplines. He received PhD in neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dept. of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.