Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 18, 2000

Michael Hanna Jr. – Intracel Corporation

MICHAEL G. HANNA, JR., PhD, is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Intracel Corporation, a biomedical research and development company in Rockville, Maryland. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Hanna served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PerImmune, Inc., a company he founded which resulted as a management buy-out from Akzo Nobel in July 1996. In 1998, PerImmune Inc. merged with Intracel Corporation. From 1985 to 1996, Dr. Hanna served as Chief Operating Officer of the Biotechnology Research Institute of Akzo Nobel NV, The Netherlands. Dr. Hanna founded the Litton Institute of Applied Biotechnology (LIAB) in 1982. In 1985, Organon Teknika assumed operations of LIAB and he served as Senior Vice President of Organon Teknika. Prior to his position at LIAB in 1982, Dr. Hanna served as the Director of the National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research Center from 1975 to 1982. Prior to 1975, Dr. Hanna was a staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biology Division, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Profile
TWST: Would you first provide our readers with an overview of INTRACEL

Corporation?

Dr. Hanna: INTRACEL is a biopharmaceutical company developing and

commercializing vaccines and