Mina Ryten, MD, PhD

Mina is Professor of Clinical Genetics at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and is an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She studied medicine at Cambridge University and then moved to University College London to obtain an MD-PhD. Under the supervision of Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, she studied purinergic signalling in skeletal muscle. She went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics with Professor John Hardy on eQTL analysis in human brain. She currently splits her time between her lab, which focuses on brain transcriptomics, and her clinical practice.