Lewis Hanna

Dr. Hanna has served as Chief Scientific Officer of Cytonics since February 2008. Dr. Hanna has over 28 years’ experience in pharmaceutical research and development, specializing in the development of recombinant protein therapies. He has extensive knowledge of protein folding, purification, formulation, large-scale production, quality, and regulatory requirements to obtain FDA new drug approval. Until 2004, Dr. Hanna was the Director of Process Development at Alexion Pharmaceutical, and prior to that, he was a Group Leader at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. He also served a Principal Research Scientist at R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Raritan, NJ) for 7 years. Dr. Hanna received his BS degree from Cairo University (Giza, Egypt), received his PhD from City University of New York (New York City, NY), and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).