Dr. Namandjé N. Bumpus serves as the FDA Chief Scientist where she provides strategic leadership and expertise to support scientific excellence, innovation, collaboration, and capacity to achieve FDA's public health mission. Prior to this, Dr. Bumpus was the E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Bumpus’ research expertise is in molecular and translational pharmacology with a focus on advancing health equity and enabling robust prediction of therapeutic outcomes. She earned a BA in biology at Occidental College, a PhD in pharmacology at the University of Michigan, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular and experimental medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Bumpus currently serves as president-elect of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
