Suzanne C. Fitzpatrick PhD

Suzanne Fitzpatrick is Senior Science Advisor for Toxicology in FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. A board-certified toxicologist in the U.S. and in Europe, Dr. Fitzpatrick is the FDA lead for the federal collaboration among FDA, EPA, and NIH, Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century (Tox 21), which looks to develop alternatives to animal testing as well as chair of the FDA Predictive Toxicology Roadmap Committee.

Dr. Fitzpatrick played a pivotal role in helping launch the organs-on-a-chip tool, a revolutionary testing technology being evaluated by the FDA. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, the FDA representative to the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing Board, and past president of the American College of Toxicology and of the Nation’s Capital Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. Dr. Fitzpatrick received her B.A. from the University of California at San Diego and her Ph.D. from Georgetown University.