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Ryan is a New Jersey native who completed his undergraduate training at MIT, where he worked in the lab of Phillip Sharp. Subsequently he moved to Stanford where he completed his M.D. and Ph.D. with Howard Chang. As a post-doc he changed fields to learn both chemistry and glycobiology with Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford. In 2021, the Flynn Lab opened at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Stem Cell Program and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. The Flynn Lab is currently focused on advancing methods, mechanisms, and functions surrounding the glycoRNA molecule, which operates at the interface of RNA biology and the cell surface.

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