Dr Feargal Ryan

Dr. Feargal J. Ryan is an NHMRC Investigator and head of the Computational Multi-Omics Group at Flinders University. He specializes in systems biology and the integration of multi-omics data to uncover disease mechanisms. His research spans poorly understood diseases like long COVID, vaccination, cancer, neural development, viral infections and the human microbiome. Dr. Ryan has led large-scale microbiome and transcriptome studies across Europe, North America, and Australia, focusing on conditions such as IBD, colorectal cancer, and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. He has also developed widely used computational tools and reproducible workflows for genomic data analysis.

Dr Ryan has been a CI/AI on over >$4 million of research funding has co-authored over 40 papers (>4,800 citations, h-index = 22, Google Scholar as of November 2024) including in top journals such as Nature and Science.

Dr. Ryan is dedicated advocate for bioinformatics research and building bioinformatics capacity in Australia. As a two-time postdoctoral representative and now Vice-President of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS, >1,200 members), he is actively involved in fostering national initiatives that advance the field