Dr. Juli Klemm is a Program Director in the Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives at NCI and directs the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Program (ITCR), supporting open source, investigator-initiated informatics technology development. In addition, Dr. Klemm co-chairs the trans-NCI Artificial Intelligence Working Group and the trans-NCI Advisory Committee to CSSI (TACTIC).
Prior to joining CSSI, Dr. Klemm was a Branch Chief in the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) where she was involved in several NCI informatics programs including the Cancer Research Data Commons and the NCI Cloud Resources. Before coming to NCI, she worked in biotechnology companies managing software and data coordination programs.
Dr. Klemm received a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research focused on structural and biophysical characterization of transcription factor-DNA interactions. She was subsequently a Jane Coffins Childs postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where she studied mechanisms of protein export from the nucleus during T-cell signal transduction. She holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah.