Christian Karsten Hansen

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Christian Karsten Hansen (born 18 August 1966) is a Danish biotechnology entrepreneur, investor and inventor, with work in new drugs, molecular biology and biochemistry.

Personal background

Originally from Copenhagen (Denmark), he spent his childhood in Antwerp, Belgium and Caracas, Venezuela before completing high school at Sorø Academy in 1984. Following graduation as MSc chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1989,^[1] PhD work in molecular biology and biochemistry was conducted at the Pasteur Institute,^[2]^[3]^[4] France and the University of Salamanca,^[5] Spain. He also completed an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School, Scotland.^[6]

Professional background

Hansen held positions as senior scientist and director of intellectual property management at Novo Nordisk 1992–1999, and was a member of Enzyme Research Management.^[6] He co-founded one of the early Danish biotechnology companies, Profound Pharma,^[7]^[8] in 1999, with Jan Møller Mikkelsen,^[9] and remained co-CEO thereof until its acquisition by Maxygen in 2000.^[10] In 2001, he co-founded the investment firm Nordic Biotech Advisors,^[1]^[11] subsequently renamed NB Capital.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^{[excessive citations]} Also in 2001, he founded C Hansen Invest.

Since 2001, Hansen has co-founded and/or been a board member of numerous privately held and listed biotechnology companies including Osteologix,^[18]^[19] Nuevolution,^[15]^[20] Curalogic,^[6] Forward Pharma,^[21] Rose Pharma,^[22] Poalis,^[15] Aditech Pharma, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals,^[23] H Pharmaceuticals, Isar Pharma,^[24] and ParaTech.^[25]

Patents

Hansen has filed numerous patent applications in the fields of genetics of bacteria, cellulases and other enzymes, osteoporosis, and protein engineering and uses of biopharmaceuticals. He is named as inventor of issued European patents 510091,^[26] 1250154,^[27] 1425304,^[28] 1534305,^[29] 1622629,^[30] 1622630,^[31] 1732575,^[32] 1745791^[33] 2266584^[34] and 2266585,^[35] and US patents 5,843,720,^[36] 5,916,796,^[37] 6,066,473,^[38] 6,555,660,^[39] 6,646,110,^[40] 6,831,158,^[41] 7,230,081,^[42] 7,232,562,^[43] 7,504,237,^[44] 7,550,565,^[45] 7,550,566,^[46] 7,595,342,^[47] 7,696,153^[48] and 8,541,471.^[49]

Various compounds from these companies and patents are in mid and late stages of clinical development.^[50]^[51]^[52]^[53]

References

^ ^a ^b "Festglad venturekapitalist – Diverse". Business.dk. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
^ Hansen, C K; Diderichsen, B; Jørgensen, P L (June 1992). "celA from Bacillus lautus PL236 encodes a novel cellulose-binding endo-beta-1,4-glucanase". Journal of Bacteriology. 174 (11): 3522–3531. doi:10.1128/jb.174.11.3522-3531.1992. PMC 206037. PMID 1592807.
^ Jørgensen Per L., Hansen Christian K., Poulsen Gitte B., Diderichsen Børge (1990). "Gene : In vivo genetic engineering: homologous recombination as a tool for plasmid construction". Gene. 96 (1): 37–41. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(90)90338-R. PMID 2265757.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Jørgensen Per L., Hansen Christian K. (1990). "Gene : Multiple endo-β-1,4-glucanase-encoding genes from Bacillus lactus PL236 and characterization of the celB gene". Gene. 93 (1): 55–60. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(90)90135-E. PMID 2227426.
^ Hansen, Christian K. (1992). "FEBS Letters : Fibronectin type III-like sequences and a new domain type in prokaryotic depolymerases with insoluble substrates". FEBS Letters. 305 (2): 91–96. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(92)80871-D. PMID 1618347. S2CID 33177292.
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^ ^a ^b ^c "Danish venture capital company Nordic Biotech raises second biotech venture fund (in English)". Mva.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
^ "Discover Relevant Business Information". venturebeatprofiles.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
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^ "G-CSF conjugates – US Patent 7550566 Full Text". Patentstorm.us. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
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^ Clinical trial number NCT00409032 for "A Dose-response Study With Strontium Malonate in Postmenopausal Women" at ClinicalTrials.gov
^ "Treatment of Neutropenia, G-CSF, Neutrophils, Chemotherapy, Protein Therapeutics, Pegylated, Clinical Trial, Neupogen, Neulasta, Blood, Bone Marrow, Breast cancer, Lung cancer, Lymphomas, Leukemias". Maxygen.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
^ Clinical trial number NCT00501332 for "Evaluation of Maxy-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients Treated With TAC (Docetaxel, Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide) Chemotherapy" at ClinicalTrials.gov

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