Profile of Prof Nagy Habib
Professor Habib is a leading academic hepatobiliary surgeon, Head of Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Imperial College London and Founder, Head of R&D and Chief Medical Officer for MiNA Therapeutics Ltd. His research programme evolved from research in oncogenes to tumour suppressor genes, epigenetic modification, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, RNA, and saRNA and RNA aptamers. Professor Habib is the first to trial a first-in-human and a first-in-class RNA oligonucleotide (MTL-CEBPA) in patients with liver cancer, among other accomplishments.
Professor Habib co-founded several biotech companies, including: EMcision (acquired by Boston Scientific), OmniCyte, MiNA Therapeutics, Apterna Therapeutics, Medeva (acquired by Celltech), and Bioenvision (acquired by Genzyme).