Dr. Ruth Nussinov obtained her degrees from the University of Washington and Rutgers. Her dissertation developed the first dynamic algorithm for folding of RNA, still taught in bioinformatics classes in the United States and Europe. She was a postdoc/research associate in the Weizman Institute, Berkeley, Harvard, and the Computer Science in Tel Aviv University. She joined the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv University, where she was a full professor, and became associated with the the Frederick National Laboratory. She was elected a Fellow in several societies, won multiple domestic and international awards, and served in several roles in the academic community.
