After becoming one of the first six women admitted as members of the Physiological Society, she studied cardiology and the carcinogenic properties of plastics at Columbia University.
Born Enid Muriel Simmons in 1885 to London architect William Simmons and his wife Louisa, née Johnstone,[2] she won a scholarship to Bedford College, London in 1904, and gained a Class I pass in her BSc.
[5] Tribe spent ten years on the faculty of the London School of Medicine for Women, where she was lecturer in histology and published on neuroscience.
[6][7][8] In 1915, she became one of the six first women to be admitted as members of the Physiological Society along with Florence Buchanan, Winifred Cullis, Constance Leetham, Ruth Skelton, and S.C.M Sowton.
[7] After the death of her first husband, Tribe married American physiologist Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer in 1919 and returned to Columbia University with him.