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Vice President for Research & Economic Development, and Professor of Biomedical Sciences, URI

Professor Snyder serves as the Vice President for Research & Economic Development at URI, where he is also a Professor of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, with a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Art & Art History. Dr. Snyder oversees the research mission of the university, and he simultaneously maintains a robust research program centered on biomarkers development for detection of high-risk for Alzheimer’s disease in pre-symptomatic individuals. Dr. Snyder is the Senior Associate Editor of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, and he is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (an open access journal of the Alzheimer’s Association). Dr. Snyder publishes regularly within his field, and he has delivered over 250 presentations at international scientific conferences.

Over the past two years, Prof. Snyder has spearheaded the establishment of URI’s first university-wide “signature research initiative”, branded as a Co-Laboratory (COLAB) or laboratory without walls. The Plastics: Land to Sea COLAB now involves the efforts of nearly 50 faculty across six of URI’s colleges, with approximately $8M in external funding, and this effort factors in prominently in URI’s recent submission for an EPSCoR Track I award. The Plastics COLAB, to be based out of the URI Coastal Institute, will welcome broad participation across the university, engage our citizenry as active partners, will seek meaningful partnerships both domestically and abroad, and will focus on applying core strengths of this university to identify innovative technological, chemical, engineering, public and environmental policy, regulatory and educational solutions to slow the pace of human contamination of our world’s oceans by nano-, micro- and macro-plastics.