Sabine Francke DVM, Dr.Med.Vet, Ph.D, FIATP

Dr. Sabine Francke is the Senior Pathologist of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS). Dr. Francke functions as the Agencies recognized Expert in Toxicologic Veterinary Regulatory Review Pathology and serves all FDA Centers and other Government Agencies by addressing controversial pathology issues of regulatory submissions and supporting pathology-related regulatory research efforts.

Dr. Francke conducts independent slide reviews and participates in international Pathology Working Groups (PWG) to provide a regulatory perspective on global complex preclinical safety issues. Dr. Francke is a recognized Fellow and the current President of the International Academy of Toxicologic Pathologists (IATP), a “past president” of the Association of Government Toxicologists (AGT), a Member of the North American Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP), and the European STP (ESTP).

Dr. Francke functions as Regulatory Liaison to the Science and Regulatory and Policy Committee (SRPC) of the STP. In this role, Dr. Francke has served on many STP working groups and has co-authored several best practices papers. Dr. Francke is also a member of the CFSAN Cancer Assessment Committee (CAC), Science Council, Redbook committee, and chairs the Immuno-toxicology Redbook committee.

Before joining FDA in 2001, Dr. Francke worked as a staff pathologist in preclinical safety for the Pharmaceutical Industry and as an immuno-pathologist for a contract research organization. Dr. Francke completed her Ph.D. / residency in applied veterinary pathology at The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, The USA. Prior, Dr. Francke defended her Dr. Vet. Med. thesis after she graduated as D.V.M. from the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.