Dr. Ruan is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She specializes in the treatment of lymphoma, and leads clinical research trials in mantle cell lymphoma and peripheral T-cell lymphoma at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ruan received comprehensive training in medicine and immunology leading to combined MD-PhD degrees from the Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Training Program of Cornell University, the Rockefeller University and Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. She completed residency and fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Stanford University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital before joining faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ruan’s research expertise focuses on development of novel therapeutics targeting tumor microenvironment and tumor immunology in both B-cell and T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. She contributes to the American Society of Hematology as an annual meeting abstract reviewer/coordinating reviewer, Highlights of ASH speaker and Education Session Chair. She is an member of the ASCO, the ALLIANCE lymphoma committee, and the LRF MCL Research Consortium. Her research efforts have been recognized and supported by funding from the LRF, the ASCO Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the NIH. Dr. Ruan has published many articles in leading research journals including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Experimental Medicine, PNAS, Blood, Annals of Oncology, Cancer, the Journal of Clinical Oncology and the New England Journal of Medicine.