She worked at Wyeth for four decades and rose to become the senior director of clinical immunology and virology at the company.
[3] Her research contributed to the development of vaccines for several diseases such as influenza, HIV, human rotavirus, adenovirus, E. coli, and cholera.
[4] Ruth Shoer Rappaport had two sisters, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, her identical twin, and Linda Faith Schoer.
[3] Ruth Shoer Rappaport died on April 28, 2020, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 83 years old.
[6] Shoer Rappaport bequeathed $1 million to her alma mater Peabody Veterans Memorial High School.