Michael Parker

Washington, D.C.

Bio

Updated 03/22/26

Michael T. Parker, Ph.D. is an Assistant Dean at Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., where he oversees biology and chemistry majors and advises over 200 students. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Immunobiology from Yale University. Before joining Georgetown, he served as an assistant professor of immunology at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. His research focuses on domestic biosecurity policy, particularly the history of U.S. select agent regulations governing the possession, use, and transfer of dangerous biological agents and toxins. He leads a team of undergraduate researchers studying the Select Agent Regulations and created the Collection of Biothreat Risk Assessments (COBRA), an open online archive enabling scholars to track and evaluate historical trends in biothreat risk assessment. He has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund to catalog the history of U.S. high-consequence pathogen regulations, evaluate their performance, and chart a path forward.