Una Ryan (born December 18, 1941) is a British-American biologist who has conducted research on vascular biology, publishing over 300 papers.

Una Scully was born on December 18, 1941[1] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to a British father who was interned in a Japanese camp during World War II.

Scully and her mother fled by boat from Singapore to England, where she completed her education, graduating with a degree in zoology from the University of Bristol in 1963.

[7] In 2007, she was honored with the Albert Einstein Award for her development of new vaccines to combat global infectious diseases[2] and then in 2008, she left the for-profit sector leaving her positions at AVANT and Celldex.

[10] Deciding to relocate to the American west coast in 2013, Ryan accepted a position as the first woman to chair the Bay Area BioEconomy Initiative.

While she was in Boston, Ryan had served on the board of the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the BioEconomy Initiative had similar aims of increasing efficiency and decreasing the time it takes for products to begin clinical trials and ultimately get to medical professionals.

Ryan has two daughters, Tamsin Smith, a poet and social impact innovator, who helped create and served as founding president of Bono's Product Red initiative.