Ruth is from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and came to the US as an international student. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Biology and Computer Science. During her undergraduate years, she worked in the Camp Lab investigating the metabolic shutdown process of sporulating Bacillus subtilis. She also briefly studied cancer targets and E3 ligases as a summer intern, which sparked her interest in cancer research. Currently, in the Beroukhim lab, she researches oncogenic mutations in pediatric low-grade gliomas.

Favorite quote: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. -Virginia Woolf