Highly Qualified Staff

 
Genetic Services Inc.'s staff includes highly qualified scientists with extensive experience in a wide variety of genetic and model organism techniques. Each project is given the personal attention needed  to make it a success.  
 
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Susan Zusman, President and CEO
 
Dr. Susan Zusman, former Vice President of Research and Development for Union Biometrica Inc. and Executive Director for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, is the founder and CEO of Genetic Services Inc.  Dr. Zusman is an accomplished scientist, educator and business woman with more than 25 years experience in the field of model organism research.  After earning her Ph.D. from Princeton University with Nobel laureate Eric Wieschaus, Dr. Zusman was a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Subsequently, she became Assistant, later Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester.  She has also held Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Bentley College in Waltham, MA and Framingham State College in Framingham, MA.  Dr. Zusman has published numerous papers, reviews and abstracts focused on the use of the fruit fly, D. melanogaster, as a model for human diseases.  She has spoken on this subject at several conferences and meetings around the world.  Dr. Zusman has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Drosophila Board of the Genetics Society of America and has been a reviewer for the National Science Foundation grants and fellowships, as well as many prestigious genetics and developmental biology journals.
 
Michael Tworoger, Director of Science
 
Michael Tworoger brings to Genetic Services Inc. more than 9 years experience working with Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.  An accomplished scientist and educator, he has received degrees from the University of Washington and Antioch University, Seattle.  Previous positions include Senior Ressearch Scientist in the lab of Dr. Hannele Ruohola-Baker at the University of Washington in Seattle.  He has also authored papers in prestigious journals of genetics and developmental biology.
 
 

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