Brittney Snyder, PhD
Dr. Britt Snyder is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Quantitative Sciences in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She holds secondary appointments in the Divisions of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine and Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine. She is also an active member of the Center for Asthma Research. Dr. Snyder joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow in 2018 after receiving a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Iowa. She was awarded fellowship funding through an NHLBI T32 in clinical and translational training in pulmonary medicine and a K12 grant through the Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars Program. She started as a faculty member in the Department of Medicine in 2021 and transitioned to the Department of OBGYN in 2024. She is currently an NHLBI K01 awardee.
Research Information
Dr. Snyder is a maternal-child health epidemiologist who is passionate about improving primary prevention and reducing the burden of early-life respiratory diseases, particularly infant respiratory syncytial virus infections and childhood asthma. Her research focuses on in utero and early-life environmental risk factors and biological pathways contributing to the development of childhood respiratory diseases. She utilizes large administrative, prospective cohort, and high-dimensional molecular (genetic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic) data to address fundamental questions about pathways of disease development.
Active Grants:
- K01 HL161257 (PI: Snyder) "Identifying molecular pathways in childhood asthma pathogenesis by integrating newborn metabolic profiles and GWAS data"
Honors/Awards:
- T32 awardee
- Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars Program awardee
- K01 awardee