Vanessa Ruta

Vanessa Ruta
Vanessa Ruta
	Ruta in 2015
Born	Chiapas, Mexico
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Hunter College; Rockefeller University; Columbia University;
Spouse	Rickie Mohan
Awards	Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award (2005); National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award (2013); MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2019); ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisor	Roderick MacKinnon
Other academic advisors	Richard Axel, Robert Barlow Jr.
Website	www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/989-vanessa-ruta/

Vanessa Julia Ruta is an American neuroscientist known for her work on the structure and function of chemosensory circuits underlying innate and learned behaviors in the fly Drosophila melanogaster. She is the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University^[1] and, as of 2021, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[2]

Ruta is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. She was one of the six fellows from New York City.^[3]

^ "The Rockefeller University » Scientists & Research". Rockefeller.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
^ "HHMI Invests $300 Million in 33 New Investigators". Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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[1] "The Rockefeller University » Scientists & Research". Rockefeller.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-09.

[2] "HHMI Invests $300 Million in 33 New Investigators". Retrieved 28 September 2021.

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