Rate My Professor Ryan Nelson

Ryan Nelson, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Twin Cities campus. A graduate of the University of Minnesota's Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology (MICaB) program, he entered in 2009, defended his PhD dissertation titled 'The Origin and Function of a Large Naive CD4+ T Cell Population' in 2014 under advisor Marc Jenkins, and earned his PhD in 2014 and MD in 2016. Prior to his graduate training, he received a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. Following medical school, Nelson completed his pediatrics residency and Allergy/Immunology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he also served as an Instructor of Pediatrics. He then conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Andrew Luster at Massachusetts General Hospital, focusing on human T-cell biology and allergen-specific immunity. In April 2024, he rejoined the University of Minnesota as a physician-scientist in the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Immunology. During his graduate training, he received an NIH/NIDDK F30 fellowship (DK093242) from 2011 to 2015.