
Sarra Djemil, PhD
Program Manager
SBIR Development Center
National Cancer Institute
Sarra Djemil is a Scientific Program Manager at the NCI SBIR Development Center dedicated to pioneering high-impact programs that make entrepreneurship accessible for all small business innovators to advance cancer technologies to the clinic. Since joining NCI SBIR in February 2021, she co-developed and manages the Industry Mentoring and Assistance Program, a first-of-its-kind program within the NIH, where biotech industry experts provide needs-based team mentoring to awardees. Prior to her current role, Sarra was an NCATS-funded Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) TL1 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Georgetown University, where she also received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 2018.