Dr. Richard Woychik

Senior Advisor, Make America Healthy Again Strategy

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Dr. Rick Woychik currently serves as Senior Advisor to the NIH Director. Previously he was the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program from June 2020 until October 2025 and Deputy Director since 2011. He is a molecular geneticist
with a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Case Western Reserve University and postdoctoral training with Dr. Philip Leder at Harvard Medical School. He spent almost 10 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory rising in the ranks to become head of the Mammalian Genetics Section and then director of the Office of Functional Genomics. In August 1997, he assumed the role of vice chairman for research and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. In 1998, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area, first as the head of the Parke-Davis Laboratory for Molecular Genetics and then as chief scientific officer at Lynx Therapeutics. He returned to academics as the president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory in August 2002 and served in that role until January 2011.

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