Dr. Ruchi Roy has been a research scientist at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, since November 2022. She obtained her master’s degree from Visva-Bharati University in India and her doctorate from the AcSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India. After that, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh from November 2014 to July 2016. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at Rush University since April 2017. Her research goals involve identifying the classical phagocytosis or endocytosis pathways involved in the uptake of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZNPs) and their subsequent inflammatory consequences. She has also focused on determining virulence mechanisms in bacterial pathogens, eukaryotic host responses intended to control bacterial pathogen infections, and the use of bacterial toxins as novel therapeutic approaches for healing diabetic wounds.