Dan Ryder, MPH, PhD
CEODan is the founder and CEO of Bridge Informatics, a professional services firm helping life science companies translate genomic data into medicine. Unlike any other data analytics firm, Bridge forges sustainable communication change between their clients’ biological and computational scientists. Dan is particularly passionate about improving communication between people of different scientific backgrounds, enabling bioinformaticians and software engineers to succeed collectively. Before forming Bridge Informatics, Dan served in various roles helping pharma and biotech clients solve early-phase drug discovery and development challenges. Dan received both a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an MPH in Disease Control from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT/MD Anderson). He completed his postdoctoral studies in Molecular Pathways of Energy Metabolism at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dan received his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin. When Dan is not at his desk, he can be found in the kitchen cooking pies, pastries, and cookies. He has a major sweet tooth, so lately, he has dedicated his free time to perfecting baked good recipes of all kinds just in time for the holidays, including key lime pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and vanilla bean and browned butter Rice Krispie treats.