Affiliations: High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Areas of specialization: molecular biology, cell-division cycles, breast cancer risk

Dr. Ruderman is senior biologist and lecturer at the High Meadows Environmental Institute. She previously served as the Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston and as the president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Trained as a developmental biologist, most of her research has focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate cell division and early development. More recently, she has turned her attention to the public health and wildlife effects of environmental contaminants that mimic or interfere with estrogen, testosterone and other hormones.