Noffisat Oki, Ph.D.

Dr. Noffisat Oki is the Director for the NIDCR Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) Computational Biology and Data Science Program within the Division of Extramural Research. Dr. Oki joins NIDCR from the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) of NIH, where she served as a Scientific Review Officer managing application reviews in the area of modeling and analysis of biological systems. Prior to moving to CSR, she was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. There she contributed to establishing data science policy and the office’s initial data science portfolio. Before joining NIH, she worked in industry, including a role as a bioinformatics scientist in research and product development, product marketing, community building, and she published primarily in the computational toxicology and population genetics fields. Dr. Oki earned her Ph.D. in bioinformatics from North Carolina State University, where she worked on developing computational methods for detecting genetic susceptibility to disease. As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab of the Environmental Protection Agency, North Carolina, her research focused on computational approaches to predicting adverse outcome pathways of relevance to human and environmental health outcomes.