Research Chemist
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Michael Santillo is a research chemist at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). For the past 13 years at FDA, Dr. Santillo has led or participated in numerous toxicology research projects involving in vitro or in silico methods. In collaboration with other partners in the federal government, he co-leads the assay evaluation and screening team for Tox21, a research consortium focused on screening thousands of chemicals by high-throughput in vitro methods. He served on editorial boards for the Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods and SLAS Technology. Before joining FDA, Dr. Santillo received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State University, where he developed microfluidic devices for cellular assays.