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NIDCR Director

Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Learn more about Jonathan E. Burke, D.M.D.

Acting Associate Director for Management/Executive Officer

Office of Administrative Management

Budget Officer

Financial Management Branch

Office of Administrative Management

Acting Chief of Staff

Learn more about Tyrone Spady

Senior Advisor of Data Science

Office of the Director

Director

Office of Clinical Trials Operations & Management

Director

Office of Information Technology

Chief

Planning, Implementation, Engagement, and Reporting

Acting Co-Scientific Director
Office of the Scientific Director
Secretory Physiology Section
Division of Intramural Research

Acting Co-Scientific Director
Office of the Scientific Director
Adeno-Associated Virus Biology Section
Division of Intramural Research

Clinical Director
Office of the Clinical Director
Craniofacial Anomalies & Regeneration Section
Division of Intramural Research

Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research

Acting Director
Division of Extramural Activities

Name	In Office from	To
H. Trendley Dean	September 17, 1948	March 31, 1953
Francis A. Arnold, Jr.	April 1,1953	February 1966
Seymour J. Kreshover	February 1966	June 30, 1975
Clair L. Gardner (Acting)	July 1,1975	December 31, 1975
David B. Scott	January 1, 1976	December 31, 1981
John F. Goggins (Acting)	January 1, 1982	December 31, 1982
Harald Löe	January 1983	June 1, 1994
Dushanka V. Kleinman (Acting)	June 1994	June 1995
Harold C. Slavkin	July 1995	July 14, 2000
Lawrence A. Tabak	September 2000	August 19, 2010
A. Isabel Garcia (Acting)	August 19, 2010	August 28, 2011
Martha J. Somerman, D.D.S., Ph.D.	August 29, 2011	December 31, 2019
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Acting)	January 1, 2020	October 13, 2020
Rena D'Souza, D.D.S, M.S., Ph.D.	October 13, 2020	2025