Charles A Greer PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology; Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery; Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program

Biographical Info

Dr. Charles A. Greer is the Vice Chair for Research and holds the rank of Professor of Neuroscience. Dr. Greer also serves as Director of the Yale Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program. He has served as the President of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Chair of National Institutes of Health Study Sections and is currently a member of the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders.

He has organized several national and international conferences and is frequently an invited speaker. Dr. Greer is an Associate Editor of The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Journal of Neuroscience and was the recipient of the Linville-Wright Award for Outstanding Research in Olfaction.

International Activity

• Development
  Paris, France (2007)
  Collaborative projects on the molecular development of synaptic circuits

Education & Training

Ph.D.

University of Colorado (1978)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yale School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Section of Neuroanatomy,

Honors & Recognition

• Distinguished Visiting Professor
  Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2003)
• Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Chemical Senses
  Association for Chemoreception Sciences (2009)
• R.H. Wright Award for Outstanding Research in Olfaction
  (2002)