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Research as an Art Form

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Sol Snyder started the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1980—the same year he served as President of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN)—with a total staff of three, including himself. For fifteen years prior to that, he had been on staff at Johns Hopkins in the departments of pharmacology and psychiatry. Today, the Department of Neuroscience, still under the direction of Snyder, has solidly distinguished itself as a leading center for research, with twenty-five primary faculty members and over fifty additional researchers with primary appointments in other departments. As one of the founding fathers of modern neuroscience, Snyder has mentored dozens of students and postdocs, and counts his role as mentor among his most important achievements, which are many: countless prizes, five honorary degrees, membership in numerous honorary societies (including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society), six books, about nine hundred citations in PubMed, and board service to diverse scientific and artistic institutions. Under Snyder’s Presidency of SFN, he countered tendencies among the Society’s total of 7000 members that would have resulted in division of the "wets" (biochemists) from the "dries" (neurophysiologists). With a membership today of around 29,000, the SFN can thank Snyder, on a wide variety of fronts, for being a driving force in the emergence of neuroscience as one of the most prolific areas of biomedicine in our time.