Ryan P. Bennett PhD

Ryan Bennett joined OyaGen in 2007. Dr. Bennett earned his BS in Biology/Chemistry from Elmira College in 2001 and his PhD from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2007.

He received a National Institute of Health HIV Training Grant Fellowship in 2005, 2006, and 2007. He also received an RNA Society award for best graduate student poster at the Gordon Research Conference on RNA Editing in January 2007. He pursued his graduate research on the multifaceted functions of the HIV-1 antiviral protein APOBEC3G under the direction of Professor Harold C. Smith the founder of OyaGen. Ryan’s focus at OyaGen is on assay development around the APOBEC3G/Vif platform and secondary analysis of small molecule hits from High Throughput Screening.