Runi did her undergraduate training in Chemistry and master's in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta, India.  She pursued her Graduate thesis project in Dr. Kim McKim’s lab at Rutgers University, New Jersey studying Drosophila meiosis and oocyte spindles.

She was a co-mentored postdoctoral researcher with Drs. Michael Lampson and Ben Black at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked on epigenetic inheritance of centromere nucleosomes and histone stability during reproductive aging.​

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Runi is passionate about ballet and music and also loves to read!