Ruth is an aspiring Ph.D. student with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Industrial Biotechnology from Caleb University, Nigeria. During this time, she completed a 6-month internship at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, where she became acquainted with the field of infectious diseases. This background inspired her to pursue a career in the medical sciences, to which she got admitted to the master’s program in health sciences. Ruth just defended her thesis, where she characterized novel phenotypic features in the malaria parasite biology using low-field NMR to determine changes occurring in heme species as the parasite goes along its intra-erythrocytic cycle. She carried out this work at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) in collaboration with International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal. Overall Ruth has developed proficiency in molecular biology, NMR spectroscopy, genetic manipulation, and drug susceptibility studies.