Thomas Hanke

Dr. Thomas Hanke is Executive Vice President and Head of Academic Partnerships at Evotec, where he is responsible for growing and guiding a portfolio of strategic academic partnerships, pre-seed incubators and investments into spin-out companies. He has more than 25 years of experience in research and drug discovery fostering innovation and continuous improvement across academia, biotech and pharma. From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Hanke oversaw Evotec’s drug discovery portfolio in inflammation and immuno-oncology, generating and building on high-value, performance-based alliances with academia and pharma. Prior to that time, he served as Sourcing Director at the Biopharmaceuticals Research Unit of Novo Nordisk where he identified, evaluated and initiated global partnering opportunities for first-in-class therapeutics within haemophilia, autoimmune/inflammatory diseases, growth disorders and protein technologies. Dr. Hanke also was co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of TeGenero, a post he held for seven years, heading the company’s R&D efforts to develop first-in-class immunomodulatory monoclonal antibodies. Before starting TeGenero, Dr. Hanke was group leader and Assistant Professor for Immunobiology at the University of Würzburg following a PostDoc at the University of California in Berkeley where he studied the immune response of lymphocytes. Dr. Hanke received his PhD in Biology from the University of Würzburg in 1995.