Dr. David M Reif, Ph.D., joined the NIEHS in 2022 as Chief of the Predictive Toxicology Branch (PTB) in the Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT). In this role, he will leverage expertise of the branch in data science, toxicogenomics, spatiotemporal health analytics, computational methods development, and new approach methods (NAMs) to advance predictive toxicology applications with partners across NIEHS, the interagency Tox21 Program and the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM). David serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) and BioData Mining (BioData Min, formerly Managing Editor) and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (JESEE) and Frontiers in Toxicology (Front Tox). David earned his B.S. in Biology (with a minor in Finance) from the College of William and Mary (W&M), where he was a Monroe Scholar. He earned his M.S. in Applied Statistics and Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Vanderbilt University (VU), under the mentorship of Jason H. Moore. Upon graduation, David came to the U.S. EPA as a post-doc under Elaine Cohen Hubal. Prior to joining NCSU, David was a Principal Investigator (PI) with the U.S. EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT), where he led several statistical/bioinformatical efforts at the Agency and collaborated on a variety of projects with the ToxCast and Tox21 consortia.