Christian Karsten Hansen

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]

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]}