Ryan earned his Ph.D. in Bio-Organic Chemistry from Professor Paul Hopkins and the University of Washington in 1999 - investigating the interactions of antitumor agents with DNA.

Ryan is the primary founder of www.corengi.com - a website to help patients with diabetes find clinical trials that are right for them. Previous to Corengi, he spent almost a decade at healthcare technology company NexCura (www.nexcura.com) - which has educational tools for cancer, cardiovascular, and respiratory ailments.