Ronald V. Swanson

Ronald Swanson serves as our Chief Scientific Officer having joined Tyra in August 2019 and brings over 26 years of biotech and pharma experience. Prior to joining Tyra, Ron served as Senior Director, Biologics at Johnson & Johnson, Inc. where he focused on new technologies and engineering of antibodies, peptides and protein therapeutics. Prior to J&J, he was co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at ActiveSight, the contract crystallography arm of Rigaku Americas Corporation. Ron was also previously at Syrrx and Diversa and was a post-doc at Caltech. Ron holds a B.A. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.