Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Richard O. Snyder
Assistant Professor and Program Director
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine
2001
Degrees earned:
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990
B.A., Washington University, 1986
Professor Richard Snyder currently serves both as the director of the Center of Excellence of Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) and the director of Human Applications within the laboratory and vector core of the Powell Gene Therapy Center. He was primarily responsible for the generation of State funds for the construction of a facility for CERHB at Progress Park in Alachua. The mission of the CERHB is to provide not only world-class research but also commercialization of technologies targeted as possible treatments and cures for human disease. CERHB has been pivotal in the establishment of high-level biotechnology training programs and has served as a bridge between UF and the biotechnology community. He has also been responsible for the creation of a complementary facility, “Florida Biologix,” which serves as a bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing and testing services operation and provides jobs in the biotechnology industry for citizens in and around Alachua County.
