Arif Peshimam has been named corporate biological safety officer at Southern Research Institute. Mr. Peshimam will be responsible for managing the select agent program and all aspects of biological safety at that company’s facilities in Birmingham, AL and Frederick, MD.

"We are pleased to have someone with Arif's proven biosafety experience join us in such a key position within the Environmental Health and Safety Department," said Mitchell Pate, Ph.D., manager of Safety and Compliance . "Our team looks forward to working with Arif, and putting his knowledge and proven skills to work at Southern Research."

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Peshimam served as a health specialist/industrial hygienist in Health Safety & Environment at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia, and was the Biosafety Officer and EHS Specialist in the Dept. of Environmental Health & Safety at the University of California-Riverside.