Suzan Alzeer

Chief Senior Research Expert, Reference Laboratories

Suzan Alzeer is Chief Senior Research Expert at the Reference Laboratories of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority in Riyadh. Regulatory reference laboratories occupy a distinct position: their results support enforcement decisions, so method validation and traceability carry legal as well as clinical weight. Her work covers genomic sequencing technologies for detecting pathogenic and foodborne microorganisms, where sequencing allows an isolate from a food product to be matched against clinical isolates and an outbreak source to be identified with far greater confidence than phenotypic methods allow.