Jeanette Hammer Andersen (PhD) is head of Marbio, an analytical platform for natural product drug discovery at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway. Marbio has experience in screening extract library of natural product origin, both terrestrial and marine organisms and has successfully identified several novel bioactive compounds in marine natural products libraries.

Main research interests are: marine biodiscovery, natural products, bioassays and high throughput screening technology.

Industry collaboration through MabCent-SFI a centre for research based innovation centre for marine bioactives and drug discovery since 2007.

Partner and work package leader in the EU FP7 project PharmaSea- Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline (2012-2016).

MABIT board member since 2009. The MABIT-programme is an industrial R&D program for Marine Biotechnology in Northern Norway. (http://mabit.no)

Barents Biocentre Lab AS, board member since 2010 (http://barents-biocentre.com)