Reader in Molecular Biology and Genomics
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Dr Ryan Pink, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Genomics, Oxford Brookes University.
After completing an Msc in Medical Diagnostics and Molecular biology PhD on dietary linked Oesophageal cancer in developing world South Africa, he worked for industry around Europe on a 6 million Euro point-of-care early diagnostic cancer tool, which lead on to working on an early cancer diagnostic tool for the International Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. Ryan went to Oxford Brookes as a Research Fellow in 2009 to set up primary blood cell culture and gene profiling in partnership with WIMM, University of Oxford and The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Ryan is now a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Genomics at Oxford Brookes University focusing on cancer therapeutics, muscle and neuron development on Earth and in space for which. His lab focuses on cell culture models, gene expression, characterisation and function (Microarray, RNAseq, Nanopore). He works across University of Oxford, OBU, Oxford NHS Trust and Oxford University Hospitals building translational research across the partners. He consults for the Biotech industry with a molecular biology technologies focus. Ryan spends much of his time teaching Medical Genomics and the future of medicine. He is widely involved in Public Engagement projects from Art to science festivals and has presented and published his work internationally, including BBC, House of Commons, London Science Museum, Natural History Museum. For his community engagement projects he has a BBC award and made an honouree member of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.