Edward Snyder

School of Medicine, Yale University, United States of America

Edward L Snyder

Academic positions:
- Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
- Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Dept. Laboratory Medicine
- Assoc. Director, Shared Resources Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Attending Physician, Dept of Clinical Laboratories, New Haven Hospital
- Attending Physician and Consultant in Hematology, West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital
- Director, Blood Bank/Apheresis Service, Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Former Vice-Chairman, Dept. Laboratory Medicine, Yale University

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Snyder's research relates to the broad field of Transfusion Medicine and, more specifically, Transfusion Oncology and Transfusion Immunobiology. His current research includes an on-going evaluation of the platelet storage lesion. This includes evaluation of alterations that occur in platelet metabolism during various storage conditions, in the platelet's cystoskeleton and in the mitochondria within platelets. Studies of the in vitro and in vivo aspects of platelet storage are an on-going effort in the laboratory. Dr. Snyder also has a long-term history of investigating the role of leukodepletion in blood components. Most recently, the laboratory has turned to the evaluation of new pathogen reduction technology. This includes the addition of various compounds to blood to remove known and potentially dangerous, as well as unknown, viral, bacterial, and protozoal contaminants in donated blood. The laboratory has a special expertise in radiolabeling human blood cells. The laboratory is currently performing clinical trials related to in vivo recovery and survivals using indium-111 and chromium-51 radiolabeled platelets and red cells, as well as Phase III trials for transfusion of pathogen-reduced blood components into patients. We are also involved in ongoing evaluations of clinical responses of patients to pheresis interventions for a variety of immunologic disorders. This is often done in conjunction with the evaluation of new apheresis machine hardware developed by a variety of corporations.

Any other information:
Dr Snyder is a member of the following:
- American Association of Blood Banks
- American Society of Clinical Pathology
- American Society of Hematology
- International Society of Blood Transfusion
- American Society for Apheresis
- New Haven County Medical Society / Connecticut State Medical Society
- Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists
- International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT)
- American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT)

He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (F.A.C.P.) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

He is an editorial board member of BLOOD, the Hematology domain of Scientific World Journal, Blood Therapies in Medicine, J. Clinical Apheresis and is associate editor of the journal 'Transfusion'.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Hematology > Hematologic Transplantation & Transfusion (since 16 November 2005)

Edward Snyder is a Section Head for Hematologic Transplantation & Transfusion, part of the HEMATOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.med.yale.edu/labmed/faculty/snydere.html