Joni Rutter

Joni L. Rutter, Ph.D., is the Director at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Dr. Rutter is responsible for planning, executing and assessing the Center’s complex and multifaceted pre-clinical and clinical programs, and is a key national spokesperson for translational science. Before joining NCATS, she served as the Director of Scientific Programs within the All of Us Research Program of the Precision Medicine Initiative at the NIH, where she led the scientific, programmatic development, and implementation efforts to build a national research cohort of one million or more U.S. participants to advance precision medicine. Her scientific interests include integrating genetic principles with environmental influences to inform more deeply our understanding of how individual and societal factors impact health and disease, and to advance the translational science that will get more treatments to more patients more quickly.