[1][2][3][4][5] Hanna attended Lawnswood comprehensive state high school in Leeds and undertook undergraduate training in medical biochemistry and then medicine at the University of Manchester graduating with honours in 1988.
In 2019 the institute held £261m in active research grants from external funders including MRC and Wellcome [8][9] National NHS England coordination of clinical services-in 2001 was central to setting up the NHS England Highly specialised service for rare neuromuscular diseases which continues successfully to this day coordinating 4 centres in London, Oxford and Newcastle enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment in congenital muscular dystrophy, congenital myasthenia, limb girdle dystrophy and muscle channelopathies.
In 2006 he was a founding partner to establish the NHS England Highly Specialised services for mitochondrial diseases linking Newcastle Oxford and London centres which continues successfully to this day.
[10] This has transformed the experimental medicine landscape in the UK for neuromuscular diseases and enabled many natural history studies and clinical trials.
This £5.5m strategic award links 14 centres in India, Turkey, South Africa, Zambia and Brazil to advance genomics for patients and establish an international fellowship training programme.