Michael D. Sussman

Michael Sussman received his baccalaureate from Tulane University, Master of science in molecular microbiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry in biomedical science from the University of Connecticut. He trained in two molecular virology post-doctoral fellowships at Plum Island Animal Disease Center and Michigan State University. Until 2003, Dr. Sussman was employed as a research scientist in animal vaccine development. From 2003 to 2009, Michael led the US Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology testing program. From 2009 to 2013 he served as the Director of the USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service Laboratory Division. Since 2013, Dr Sussman has served as a senior research scientist for the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service’s Agricultural Analytics Division in Washington, DC. Dr, Sussman was the Chairperson for ISO TC 34/SC 16 from 2008 until 2018. He became the current committee manager of ISO/Technical committee 34 “Food products”/SC 16 “Horizontal methods for molecular biomarker analysis” in 2017 and serves as an expert in a number of ISO committees.