Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Angel Ruiz received his BS in Biochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in May 2022. As an undergraduate, he conducted research as an NIH-funded BUILD Fellow in Dr. Fangyuan Tian's material science laboratory. His focus on metal organic frameworks as a drug delivery system for prospective heart therapeutics culminated in the presentation of a senior thesis. At UC Davis, he joined Dr. JoAnne Engebrecht’s laboratory to study meiosis and tumor-suppressor genes in germline cells using C. elegans as a model organism.