Draft:Edward Snell (scientist)

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Edward Holmes Snell is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo New York. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Institute and a Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Materials Design and Innovation.

Education and Career

Snell studied Applied Physics at the John Moores University of Liverpool graduating with a first class honors degree. He then moved to the University of Manchester for a doctorate in the Chemistry Department supervised by John Helliwell which he completed in 1996. He moved to the USA to continue with post-doctoral research at NASA's Biophysics Laboratory at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was a National Research Council Fellow for three and a half years when he transitioned to a staff scientist position until 2005. He moved to the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo New York, in 2005, as a research scientist being promoted to senior scientist in 2010, and became President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute in 2014. He has a position as professor in the Department of Materials Science and Innovation in the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Buffalo from 2016 and is an adjunct professor in Cell Stress and Biophysical Oncology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, also in Buffalo.

Awards

In 1992 Snell was nominated to attend the seven week Higher European Research Course for Users of Large Experimental Systems (HERCULES) school in Grenoble and Paris, France. In 1993 he received a National Research Council Fellowship to conduct his own research program at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center. He was awarded an imaging award from the industry magazine Advanced Imaging in 2003 for work with his collaborator, Dr. Russell Judge, on imaging protein crystals as they grew in a device intended for experiments on the Space Shuttle Orbiter. In 2003 he received the Marshall Space Flight Center Directors Award for Collaborative Research. Snell was nominated to the Faculty of 1000 in 2012. Since 2015 he has consistently been listed as one of the Power 250, the most influential people in Western New York by the Buffalo Business First magazine and in 2022 he was named a Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association - The Structural Science Society.

External Links

The Snell Laboratory The Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the SUNY University at Buffalo Institute Leadership at the Hauptman-Woodward medical Research Institute