Scott B. Hansen is a principal investigator at the Chinese Institutes for Medical Research (CIMR) in Beijing, with appointments in the Institutes for Medical Physiology and at capital medical university.
Scott completed his doctoral training at the University of California, San Diego, and then went on to train with Rod Mackinnon at The Rockefeller University and Loren Walensky at Harvard before starting his own lab at Scripps Research (USA) in 2012. In 2024 Scott moved his lab to CIMR where he continues his studies on membrane mediated anesthesia, neurodegeneration, and the excitability of cells.
Outside of lab, Scott likes piano and sports, in particular surfing, running, and skiing.
Chinese Institute for Medical Research, Beijing.