Frank Attard is a Senior Communications Specialist with UL’s Fire Safety Research Institution (FSRI). Frank has 10 years of graduate and postdoctoral biomedical research at various institutions including the College of Life Sciences and the College of Agriculture at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He also has more than 10 years of experience in scientific, medical, and technical writing, writing, and preparing various funding proposals. Prior to joining the team in 2023, Frank worked as a senior consulting scientific writer, contracting with a variety of organizations including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Census Bureau, among others.