Sinéad Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Bioscience in the School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD. Her research area is multidisciplinary, involving the design and assessment of formulations for peptide and food-derived peptide (nutraceutical) oral delivery. After completing her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the National University of Ireland Galway, she obtained a PhD in 2005 from the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at University College Cork, where her research involved the genetic and biochemical characterisation of beneficial gastrointestinal enzyme activities in Bifidobacterium breve. During her time as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCD (2005-2007), she moved to a new discipline and research area: drug delivery. Her research focused on the oral delivery of novel mucoadhesive polymeric peptide conjugates. In 2007, she joined The Irish Drug Delivery Research Network, funded by a SFI research cluster award, as Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where she gained expertise in the area of overcoming barriers for the efficient delivery of peptides for oral, injectable and intra-articular delivery. She obtained a Lectureship in Biochemistry at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2010 and then returned to the School of Veterinary Medicine UCD for her current position as a Lecturer in Veterinary Biosciences (2013-present).