Gabriella Ryan, Ph.D., hails from California, where she began her life sciences career with a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. She then moved to the East Coast to pursue graduate studies in Cellular Biology at the University of Maryland. 

Gabriella’s extensive post-graduate experience includes a research associateship at Washington University School of Medicine and a fellowship at the National Human Genome Institute at NIH. In the private sector, she excelled as a bioinformatics business development consultant in Bethesda and held key roles at Invitrogen Life Technologies in Frederick, Maryland. At CSRA (now General Dynamics) in Rockville, Gabriella was Principal Investigator of the Administrative Coordinating Service for the Resequencing and Genotyping Service at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.  There she collaborated with the institution’s Oversight, Steering committees and Evaluation Panels. 

Most recently, Gabriella led precision medicine and workforce development initiatives for a professional medical society, serving as a liaison for multinational task forces, committees, and working groups from clinical and basic academia, government, and industry. 

Gabriella and her family are long-term residents of Montgomery County.