Joni L. Rutter PhD

Joni L. Rutter, Ph.D., is the director of scientific programs for the All of Us Research Program. In this role, she leads the scientific, programmatic development, and implementation efforts to build a national research cohort of 1 million or more U.S. participants to advance precision medicine. Prior to joining All of Us, she was the division director of neuroscience and behavior at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In this role, she led integrated research on basic and clinical neuroscience, brain and behavioral development, genetics, epigenetics, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, drug discovery, and also coordinated the NIDA Genetics Consortium and biospecimen repository.
Joni is internationally recognized for her work in basic and clinical research in human genetics and in the study of genetic and environmental risk factors focusing on the fields of cancer and addiction. She received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth Medical School and completed a fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. Her primary scientific objective is to integrate genetic principles with environmental influences to inform more deeply our understanding of how individual and societal influences impact our health and disease.