Ruth E. Ley

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Ruth Ley is Director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. In her research she investigates the co-evolution of humans with their microbiomes and explores how host genetics affect the composition of the microbiome. For her scientific achievements Ley has received a number of awards including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2010, and the ISME Young Investigators Award in 2014. In 2016, she was appointed Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Tübingen University.