Nicole Vasilevsky is the Associate Director of Data Science in the Data Collaboration Center (DCC) at the Critical Path Institute in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She earned her PhD in Cell Biology from Oregon Health & Science University. Her interests are in developing and applying semantic technologies in the biomedical domain to facilitate novel knowledge discoveries by structuring disparate data types to adhere to the FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible). Dr. Vasilevsky joined C-Path in January 2023 to leverage her expertise in ontology development, data standards, and annotation application as she leads a team of data scientists to develop and implement a data curation pipeline utilizing the organization’s knowledge graph that is used to accelerate drug development and improve health outcomes.