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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PathogenDx, Inc., an Arizona based technology company which has developed a multiplexed microarray DNA-based pathogen testing platform, announced today that Dr. David Acheson will join the company as a strategic advisor. As part of the role, Dr. Acheson will form a food safety committee that will inform the company's development of rapid detection testing technologies for the food industry.
Dr. Acheson brings more than 35 years of medical and food safety research and experience to PathogenDx. Formally trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases, he left his practice to teach and study at Tufts University in Boston, where he researched the molecular pathogenesis of foodborne pathogens. Subsequently, he was tapped to serve as Chief Medical Officer at both the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), and was later appointed as the first Associate Commissioner for Foods at FDA. For the past decade, Dr. Acheson has consulted with the world's largest and best known food brands at all levels of the food supply chain through his firm The Acheson Group.