Corey Smith

Dr. Corey Smith earned his Bachelor's of Science in Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Biocore/Zoology. During his undergraduate years, he worked in several laboratories on the University of Wisconsin campus, with the majority of time spent in the lab of Richard Burgess, Department of Oncology. Dr. Smith then enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (now University of Colorado - Denver Anschutz Medical Center). There, he studied with Dr. William J. Betz with a focus on evoked release of neurotransmitters. Dr. Smith then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Membrane Biophysics, in Göttingen Germany where he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Erwin Neher. Dr. Smith continued the study of evoked neurotransmitter release.

Dr. Smith established his independent research program at the Medical College of Georgia in 1998 in the department of Physiology and Endocrinology. His laboratory focused on the understanding of differential transmitter release under the sympatho-adrenal stress reflex. In the fall of 2000, Dr. Smith moved the laboratory to the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University. There, his lab continued the molecular and functional description of the mechanisms responsible for differential transmitter release as a function of stress activation in the adrenal medulla. In the fall of 2013, Dr. Smith joined the newly formed Bioelectronics Initiative formed by GlaxoSmithKline. It was in this organization Dr. Smith began a collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey Ardell focusing on the measure of sympathetic neurotransmitter in the heart under native autonomic regulation in healthy and infarcted hearts. This active collaboration formed a second major line of research in the Smith laboratory.