Gary L. Snable ’59

Gary died Oct. 16, 2018. He was born in Basking Ridge, N.J., to Myron Snable 1923 and Marion Prout Snable.

Gary attended high school in Bernardsville, N.J., where he served on the student council. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, worked in Commons, joined ROTC, and ate at Dial.

After graduation Gary served his obligated six months active duty with Army Artillery. He then embarked on a lifetime career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, establishing a small pharmaceutical manufacturing company and then joining Richardson-Merrell, where he stayed for 15 years. In 1978 he moved to Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., as a prelude to its establishment of a joint venture with Smith-Kline Beckman headquartered in Philadelphia, where he developed and marketed products from Fujisawa research in the United States and Canada. While in Philadelphia, Gary served as a governor of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia and on the careers and schools committees. In 1991 he founded Layton BioScience, developing cellular therapeutics for disorders of the central and peripheral nervous systems and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Gary is survived by his wife, Dianne, whom he married in 1963; two children, James ’87 and Sara; a granddaughter; and brother Robert ’51. We have sent condolences.