Tony Dickherber is a Program Director in the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Office of the Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives. Dr. Dickherber is part of the team managing Cancer Grand Challenges, the Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies program, the Creative Collaborations Foundry, the Cancer Moonshot, and also participates in the Cancer Screening Research Network management team. Tony received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focused on the development of novel biosensors based on microelectronic acoustic device technology.
Dr. Dickherber joined the National Cancer Institute as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in 2009 to assist with the design and development of the Cancer Human Biobank (caHUB) with the Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research. Prior to joining the NCI, Tony's research focused on innovative biosensor platforms for early detection of cancer and arrayable ion-trapping structures for quantum-bit computing at the Georgia Tech Microelectronics Research Center in Atlanta, GA. He also spent four years as a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute working on military-related telecommunications projects.