Ruth Everett received her BS from Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, India, and her MS in zoology from Bangalore University in India. Everett worked for several years as a lecturer and head of the Department of Zoology at Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore. She received her PhD in animal science from Purdue University and her postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center in the Department of Pediatric Medical Genetics. She gained experience in cell and molecular biology at the Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center at UNC-Chapel Hill and at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Department of Pulmonary Medicine) as a research instructor, She joined the laboratory of Dhiren Thakker initially as a visiting scholar and then as research faculty. Everett's research interests are in the areas of metformin intestinal absorption/transport mechanisms and anticancer activities, and in the modulation of tight junctions for enhanced drug delivery.