Bryan A. Piras PhD

Bryan Piras is a Lead Scientist in the department of Therapeutics Production and Quality in the GMP facility at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. At St. Jude, Bryan is responsible for the upstream and downstream process development of AAV-based gene therapies. Before arriving at St. Jude, Bryan earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia, where he designed AAV vectors for cardiac gene therapy applications. He is originally from Minnesota, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in liberal arts and biomedical engineering from the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota.