Dr. Hanson is the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University. He is an established investigator in the fields of structure-based drug design and radiopharmaceutical chemistry. Among his accomplishments in nuclear medicine are the development of radiohalodestannylation methods for radiopharmaceuticals and the co-invention of Altropane for Parkinsons’ disease imaging. Dr. Hanson has also identified new classes of high affinity steroidal agonists and antagonists. Professor Robert Hanson conducted his postdoctoral training in medicinal chemistry at the University of Minnesota and in nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School . He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. |