Noriko Okudaira, PhD, is a senior member of the Simcyp team, with deep expertise in PBPK modelling for small molecule drugs and a distinguished career spanning Nippon Roche (now Chugai Pharmaceutical), Meiji Seika Pharma, and Daiichi Sankyo. She provides strategic scientific leadership on PBPK applications across discovery and clinical development, bringing a rare combination of multinational industry experience and academic excellence to her work. She holds MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo. She also had the opportunity to train in the laboratory of Professor Leslie Z. Benet at the University of California, San Francisco — one of the world’s foremost authorities in pharmacokinetics — an experience that helped shape the scientific foundation underlying her work at Certara.