Richard Honkanen, PhD

Inventor

Richard Honkanen is the inventor of the original technology on which Repair Biotechnologies’ CDP platform is based. He is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the College of Medicine, University of South Alabama. Dr. Honkanen’s lab has been a pioneer in the study of atherosclerosis and other age-related diseases, having published extensively on cholesterol catabolism, the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and mechanisms of cardioprotective agents in ischemic myocytes. He has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Georgia.