Karlie Sharma, Ph.D.

Program Director, Office of Drug Development Partnership Programs at National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health

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Karlie Sharma is a program director in the Office of Drug Development Partnership Programs at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the NIH, where she serves as the lead for the NIH Common Fund-sponsored Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) program. Building on the success of a small grant program she led in the IDG program, Sharma has established a rare disease R03 pilot project funding opportunity to enable exploration of understudied proteins purported to affect rare diseases. Sharma received her doctorate in molecular physiology and biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.