Christie Canaria (Fed)

Christie Canaria, PhD is a Senior Advisor in the CHIPS R&D Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Department of Commerce, supporting the development of core programs and policies. Her federal service is dedicated to creating an integrated innovation ecosystem where industry, academia, and government work together to strengthen and advance U.S. leadership in technology. Previously, Christie served as Interagency Policy Specialist at NIST providing executive-level leadership for federal, cross-agency initiatives to advance technology translation in the Lab-to-Market arena. 

Before NIST, Christie led I-Corps™ at the National Institute of Health (NIH), a program designed to support training to help project teams at NIH-funded small businesses overcome key obstacles along the path of innovation and commercialization. Concurrently at NIH, Christie was a Program Director at the National Cancer Institute’s Small Business Innovation Research Development Center managing a $20M portfolio of technologies including biological imaging, biosensors, and nanotechnology.  

Prior to federal service, Christie managed an optical microscopy facility at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and served as an imaging expert at the Caltech Biological Imaging Center, where she developed multi-dimensional and time-lapse confocal imaging techniques. She also worked at biotech company Illumina, Inc. during its start-up and IPO stages. 

Christie was awarded the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship and began science policy work in Washington, D.C. in 2013. 

She holds a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a BS in chemistry from the University of California – San Diego.