Standards for Science: Ruth Cheng ’01 is CEO of ATCC, which creates the standards and reference materials that make biological discoveries reproducible

Standards for Science: Ruth Cheng ’01 is CEO of ATCC, which creates the standards and reference materials that make biological discoveries reproducible. We chatted about:
- ATCC's essential role in supplying reference materials for reproducible experiments
- how her undergrad research at Cornell shaped her career path into science and leadership
- her transition from bench research to the business side of science

(0:00) what is ATCC? why is it important for research? (5:06) workflow around ATCC reference materials (7:41) depositing reference materials to ATCC (12:09) over 100k items in catalog (14:49) research experience at Cornell (18:40) scientifically interesting research directions (22:31) getting a PhD (24:58) moving to the business side of science (28:53) importance of making the standards (30:33) 3d model of organ on a chip (34:49) nonprofit governance structure (38:00) AI increases pace of biological data (40:07) closing question