Biography

Ken L. Wiley, Jr., is the chief of the Clinical Research Resources Section in the Clinical Affairs Branch within NCATS’ Division of Clinical Innovation, where he manages, coordinates and provides technical and scientific leadership and guidance for activities relevant to the section. Prior to joining NCATS in 2023, Wiley developed, managed and led several NIH-funded national and international resources that used data science to improve clinical care by reducing barriers to leveraging genomics and genomic-related information. In addition, he has expertise in identifying, developing and implementing resources to support the recruitment of participants in clinical research initiatives. Wiley also has developed leadership and scientific expertise in using cloud-based resources and strategies for warehousing, distributing and sharing data to provide a collaborative environment with analysis tools and interfaces for consortia and researchers to compute on and across diverse data sets.

Wiley earned his doctorate in pharmacology from Meharry Medical College, in collaboration with the University of Iowa. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Morehouse College.

Research Topics

Wiley’s research interests include computational resources, clinical informatics, data science, epigenomics, genomics, digital health technology, patient recruitment and pharmacology.