Bryan leads the Business Development and External Communications unit with responsibility for all Culture Collections business and marketing activities.
Bryan graduated from The University of Salford in 1984 with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology and then went on to complete a PhD at Boehringer Mannheim in Germany (now Roche) entitled screening Microorganisms for new restriction enzymes. Following this he returned to the UK in 1988 and began a career with ECACC as a post doc scientist establishing methods for EBV immortalisation of B lymphocytes; the Human Genetic Cell Collection and molecular DNA profiling of cell lines. During the following 10 years he was Principal Investigator on several UK Medical Research grants concerned with provision of resources for the UK effort as part of the Human Genome Mapping project. In 1997 he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Portsmouth which led him to taking on a more commercial role within ECACC concerned with sales, marketing and business development. In 2008 he took on his current role Head of Business Development and External Communications. In his spare time Bryan can be found growing his own fruit and vegetables, singing or treading the boards with his local amateur dramatic society.