Ferenc Darvas

Biography

Dr. Ferenc Darvas is the Founder and Chairman of THALESNano and one of the true pioneers in the process intensification involved in modern chemistry. He conceived the first industrialized solution-phase combinatorial synthesis technology (CMT). This was realized by ComGenex, the first European combinatorial chemistry corporation in 1992. In the mid-90′s he focused to high-throughput ADME methodologies in combinatorial design, introduced combinatorial methodologies into chemical genomics, and recently, the use micro- and mesoscale flow reaction technologies for combinatorial synthesis and lead optimization when, as inventor, initiated and co-developed H-Cube®, the first bench top hydrogenator at ThalesNano, Inc. He received his first degree in organic chemistry, another in computer science, and his PhD. in the use of artificial intelligence in drug design. He is co-founder of the International Society for QSAR, the Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS), the Hungarian Chapter of the American Chemical Society and the Hungarian Biotechnology Association. He was teaching in Budapest, Barcelona, Gainesville (Florida, USA), and still teaching as guest professor at Florida International University, Miami.

Research Interest

microfluidics, mesofluidics and nanotechnology.