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Joni Rutter, director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), discusses the centre’s audacious goal to have 25% of diseases covered by the experimental drug pipeline by 2032.
Joni Rutter has been working at the intersection between genomics and disease at the NIH for over two decades — with stints at the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the All of Us precision medicine programme. When a position opened up for deputy director at NCATS in 2019, she grabbed the chance to push her learnings into practice, focusing on accelerating the translation of research findings into therapeutics.