Susan M. Baxter, Ph.D.
Executive Director
California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB)

Susan M. Baxter, Ph.D., has served as executive director of the CSUPERB since March 2007. Baxter brings more than 20 years of research and management experience in business, nonprofit and academia to the board. Prior to CSUPERB, Baxter served as chief operation officer of the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, N.M. Other leadership positions include executive director of computational sciences, Cengent Therapeutics; vice president of research and genome analysis, GeneFormatics; and research scientist for the New York State Department of Health and the Monsanto Agricultural Company. Baxter earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia and earned her master's and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Northwestern University. She was also National Research Service Award supported postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oregon.