Ruth Vinall is a Professor and the Assistant Dean of Research in the Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences at California Northstate University College of Pharmacy (CNUCOP). She received her Ph.D. from Cardiff University, U.K., Department of Anatomy. After receiving her doctoral degree, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis Medical Center. In 2009, she completed an NIH K30 program-funded M.A.S. degree in Clinical Research at UC Davis and was subsequently appointed as a research faculty member in the Department of Urology. During her time at UC Davis, she supervised multiple undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and in 2009 and 2010, was awarded Outstanding Mentor awards for her work with the UC Davis CURE program. Her research focuses on prostate and bladder cancer research as well as educational research. In addition to prostate cancer health disparities research, she is interested in determining the mechanisms of chemoresistance and identifying the biomarkers that can predict a patient’s response to chemotherapy, in which a primary focus is miRNA research.