Jeanette Hammer Andersen

Jeanette is CEO and co-founder of KinSea and a professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). She is a biologist in marine bioprospecting and has headed the natural products platform Marbio at UiT since its foundation in 2004.

Marbio is specializing on screening extract libraries of both terrestrial and marine organisms, and has successfully identified several novel bioactive compounds.

Jeanette earned her PhD in 2003 at the department of Microbiology at the University Hospital of North Norway, working with inhibition of Herpesviruses infection using natural proteins/peptides.