Tracy Ryan
Keynote Speaker

Tracy Ryan

Biotech Founder · Cancer Warrior Mom · Global Speaker

Turning the impossible into impact. Four-time founder, biotech inventor and five-time White House guest helping audiences and organizations lead with courage, purpose and resilience.

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Tracy Ryan, keynote speaker and biotech founder
MSNTop 10 Women
to Watch 2026
As seen on & in
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FOX · The Today Show · The Doctors · PBS · Telemundo · Huffington Post · Daily Mail

How I can help

Lessons from the boardroom, the lab and the hospital room, brought to your stage or your team.

01

Keynote Speaking

Inspiring keynotes on innovation, resilience and the future of cancer care for conferences, corporations and global summits.

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02

Business Consulting

Strategic guidance on patient advocacy, biotech storytelling, brand building and fundraising from a founder who has raised $11M+.

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03

Advocacy & Impact

Five consecutive years on Capitol Hill and Cancer Moonshot roundtables at the White House. Advocacy that moves policy.

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Impact by the numbers
200+Keynotes & appearances worldwide
$11M+Raised for her companies & science
5×Invited guest of the White House
4Companies founded, CEO of three
What audiences & organizers are saying

Stories that stay with you.

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“Watching Tracy Ryan speak completely changed how I think about resilience. Faced with her daughter's cancer diagnosis, she didn't wait for science to catch up—she built a biotech company to drive it forward. On stage, Tracy is energetic, fearless, and deeply moving.”

Vilas Shukla, Ph.D, Johnson and Johnson

"While most people freeze in uncertainty, Tracy moves. While most people spiral in setbacks, she studies them. While most people shrink their ambition under pressure, she expands hers. She treats pain as information. Failure as iteration. Betrayal as clarity. And perhaps most importantly, she zooms out. When everything feels catastrophic, she sees it as a chapter. Not the whole book. That’s not denial. That’s strategic perspective."

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Stages & recognition

From the White House to the world stage.

  • 01 5× White House guest: Cancer Moonshot roundtables
  • 02 Capitol Hill, 5 consecutive years: Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus
  • 03 BPI West & East plenary keynote
  • 04 PTTOW, Summit and international conferences
  • 05 MSN Top 10 Women to Watch 2026
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Science · Storytelling · Soul
The story behind the stage

“Hope isn't a feeling.
It's a decision.”

When my daughter Sophie was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor at 8½ months old, I refused to accept a hopeless prognosis. That fight took me from our kitchen table to the forefront of cellular immunotherapy, to Capitol Hill and to the White House. It shapes everything I bring to every audience.

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