Neurosciences and Psychiatry

Samuel M. Young, Jr. Ph.D.

Director, Gene Therapy Center

Roper Investigator

Professor of Pediatrics

Professor of Pharmacology

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

 

Samuel M. Young, Jr. Ph.D. is the Director of the Gene Therapy Center,  Professor and Roper Investigator in the Dept of Pediatrics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North-Carolina- Chapel Hill. Dr. Young’s research focuses on two major areas:1) the Molecular Principles of Auditory Information Processing and 2) Gene Therapy Approaches for Neurological Disorders. His laboratory has published numerous high impact papers in these areas and has provisional patents filed for his gene therapy work. He serves on the editorial board for Journal of Physiology and Physiological Reviews and is a NIH standing study section member of the AUD study section. In addition, he serves as a scientific advisor to biotech companies. Dr. Young is a first-generation college graduate and was a 4-year member of the Princeton University football team where he was a starting defensive tackle on the 1995 Ivy League Championship team.

Prior to joining UNC, Dr. Samuel M. Young, Jr was a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and a Professor and Director of Molecular Auditory Research in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Young was an Iowa Distinguished Scholar awardee and is a member of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute. Prior to joining the University of Iowa in 2017, he was an Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader of Research Group-Molecular Mechanisms for Synaptic Function at the then newly created Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (2010-2017).