Naoual Oukkache

Naoual Oukkache is a Moroccan toxicologist and herpetologist. She focuses on venoms and antivenoms and is a World Health Organization (WHO) expert on snakebite envenoming.

Biography Oukkache has studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Aix-Marseille University in Provence, France; the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil; the Instituto de Biotecnología (UNAM) in Cuernavaca, Mexico; and Monash University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2006, Oukkache began working at the Institut Pasteur of Morocco [ fr] in Casablanca, where she has worked as Research Director of the Venoms and Toxins Laboratory. She achieved a PhD in Biochemistry at Hassan II University of Casablanca (UH2C) in 2007. She is a World Health Organization (WHO) expert on snakebite envenoming and a member of the COST European Venom Network (EUVEN). In 2021, she became an collaborating expert to the Global Snakebite Initiative (GSI).