Mina Ryten

Professor Mina Ryten is a clinician scientist with a long-standing interest in the use of human brain transcriptomics to understand neurological diseases. She began her medical training at the University of Cambridge and went on to complete an MB PhD at UCL. While her PhD focused on purinergic signalling in skeletal muscle development, she subsequently trained in bioinformatics through an MRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Systems Biology. This experience led her to become a Clinical Geneticist, shaped her research interests, and formed the basis of her application for an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Since 2017, she has led her own research group at the UCL Institute of Neurology, and later the UCL Institute of Child Health. In January 2024, her lab moved to the University of Cambridge, where she also became Director of the UK DRI at Cambridge. At the core of her group's research is the use of human brain transcriptomic data as a genome-wide functional read-out of an individual's DN