Melissa Hanna-Brown is a British pharmacologist. She works for Pfizer UK and is a visiting professor at the University of Warwick.
Melissa Hanna-Brown | |
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| Alma mater | King's College London University of Sunderland |
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| Institutions | Pfizer UK King's College London University of Warwick |
| Website | kclpure |
Early life and education
editHannah-Brown became interested in pharmacy as a child, when she worked at her local chemists on the weekend.[1] She studied Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Sunderland, spending a year at GlaxoSmithKline and graduating in 1995.[2] She completed a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) SmithKline Beecham sponsored PhD in pharmaceutical analysis at King's College London in 1998.[2][3]
Research and career
editHannah-Brown remained at King's College London as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded postdoctoral researcher.[2] She became a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy in 2000.[2] She won the Desty Memorial Prize for Contribution to Separation Science in 2000.[4] She developed instrumentation to enable detection of trace components in biofluids supported by Research Councils UK.[5][6]
In 2006 Hanna-Brown was appointed as Separation Science Lead at Pfizer UK, and made head of the Analytical Team in 2008.[2] She was made visiting full professor at the University of Warwick in 2011.[2] In 2014 she was appointed Technology & Innovation Lead for the Pfizer Worldwide R&D division.[2] She works on drug analytical science to support the development of drugs to applications.[4] Her work looks at analytical quality.[7] She also looks at using Quality by Design to develop chromatographic methods.[8]
She was the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) analytical division council in 2017 and is Vice Chair of the separation science group.[4][9][7] Hanna-Brown contributes to diversity and inclusion initiatives at Pfizer, writing their gender pay gap report.[10]
Awards and honours
editHanna-Brown was included in the Top 30 Women Leaders in the UK in 2018.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Professor Melissa Hanna-Brown, Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer UK | ABPI". www.abpi.org.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2018). "Professor Melissa Hanna-Brown". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Melissa Hanna-Brown - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ a b c "Editorial Board profiles". Analytical Methods. 7 (1): 20–24. 2015. doi:10.1039/C4AY90093F. ISSN 1759-9660.
- ^ BIA. "Women in Biotech Networking Evening - September". www.bioindustry.org. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Melissa Hanna-Brown". The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Analytical Division Council". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Using Quality by Design to Develop Robust Chromatographic Methods - Process Development Forum". www.processdevelopmentforum.com. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Contact". The Royal Society of Chemistry's Separation Science Group. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Pfizer UK Gender Pay Gap Report 2018". Pfizer: the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "30 Women Leaders in UK Healthcare (part 2)". PMLive. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.