Friday, January 9, 2026
Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D., will present "NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science, 2025 – 2030" from 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EST.
About the Seminar
Data science is advancing our understanding of biomedical and behavioral phenomena, contributing to breakthroughs that improve the health and wellbeing of all. The 2025-2030 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Data Science sets a bold vision for the future of data science at the NIH. The Office of Data Science Strategy leads implementation of this plan that will coordinate NIH efforts to leverage data science to accelerate our understanding of human health by leveraging the deep expertise of NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices as well as NIH’s partners with other federal agencies, academia, industry, and philanthropy.
This Strategic Plan prepares NIH to navigate the evolving technology landscape, address the rapid rise in the quantity and diversity of data, and bridge new data to existing knowledge. NIH is setting five goals to achieve this vision:
Goal 1: Improve Capabilities to Sustain the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
Goal 2: Develop Programs to Enhance Human-Derived Data for Research
Goal 3: Provide New Opportunities in Software, Computational Methods, and Artificial Intelligence
Goal 4: Support for a Federated Biomedical Research Data Infrastructure
Goal 5: Strengthen a Broad Community in Data Science
About the Speaker
Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D., was appointed Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 16, 2019. Under her leadership, ODSS leads the implementation of the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science through scientific, technical collaboration with the institutes, centers, and offices that comprise NIH. Dr. Gregurick received the 2020 Leadership in Biological Sciences Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, which recognizes work of merit and distinction of scientists and leaders in the greater Washington area.
Prior to joining ODSS, Dr. Gregurick was the Division Director for Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), where she led the institutes effort to reimagine the NIGMS technology programs through National and Regional Resources to support state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, technologies, research tools, software, and service.
Prior to government service, Dr. Gregurick was a professor of computational chemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her B.S. in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Maryland.
About the Seminar Series
The seminar is open to the public and registration is required each month. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Allison Hurst at 301-670-4990. Requests should be made at least five days in advance of the event.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy hosts this seminar series to highlight examples of data sharing and reuse on the second Friday of each month at noon ET. The monthly series highlights researchers who have taken existing data and found clever ways to reuse the data or generate new findings. A different NIH institute or center will also share its data science activities each month.