Dr. Micheel is focused on creating content and tools that help oncology health care professionals improve the lives of cancer patients and their families. She joined the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in December 2011 as managing editor for MyCancerGenome.org. Dr. Micheel is responsible for the content on the award-winning MyCancerGenome.org website. She manages the technical development priorities and progress of the website's features, and she led development of the iOS mobile application, also called My Cancer Genome. Prior to moving to Nashville, Dr. Micheel spent four years at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in Washington, DC, beginning in January 2008 as a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow in the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF) and Board on Health Care Services. Prior to her work at the IOM, Dr. Micheel held a postdoctoral position at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., where she studied interactions between biomolecules, such as DNA and antibodies, and nanomaterials. She completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, with the support of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship; her research was focused on nanobioscience.