In 2006 she received her PhD from the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ross has her bachelor's from the University of Texas in history and biochemistry. Her research centers on the development of medical research in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and the laboratory as a center of knowledge production. Currently, Dr. Ross is working on a book that analyzes how medical scientists in the United States responded to antivivisection campaigns in the 1920s and '30s.