Greiner Istavan

Biography

István Greiner graduated at Technical University of Budapest in 1984 as chemical engineer (M.Sc.). He works at Gedeon Richter Plc. since there, at the beginning as research scientist. He got his Ph.D. at Institute of Organic Chemistry of the same university. In 1992 he was appointed as Deputy of the Head of Chemical and Biotechnological Research and Development. He got his MBA degree at Open University in 1998. He is a patent attorney too, and from 1996 he also headed the Intellectual Property Department at Gedeon Richter Ltd. for two and a half year. In 1998 he was appointed to the Director of Chemical and Biotechnological Research and Development, and from 2000 he worked for the company as the Deputy of the Research Director too. His responsibility was all the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) research and development activities including new chemical entity, generic and biotechnological projects. From 1st of August 2014 he was appointed to Research Director of the Company. He is inventor of seven patents, invited as plenary speaker for international and domestic conferences and has more than 70 publications in well known peer reviewed international journals.

Research Interest

Organic Chemistry, Drug discovery, drug development, Regulatory affairs, clinical development, biotechnology, patents