Leadership
Management Team
János Gerencsér
Director of Operations
János Gerencsér
Director of Operations
Dr. Gerencsér joined Solvo in June 2020 as Director of Operations. Prior to that he worked as managing director at BioBlocks Kft, Budapest, Hungary. Previously, he spent four years at ComInnex, Inc, Budapest, Hungary, first as Director of Chemistry and later as Chief Operating Officer. Between 2006 and 2012 Dr. Gerencsér worked at AMRI Hungary as Assistant Director of Chemistry and Innovation leading a department of over 40 scientists. He was responsible for the successful management of contract research projects at highest customer satisfaction. Dr. Gerencsér started his industrial career at ComGenex in 1999 where he held positions of increasing responsibility and was appointed to group leader in 2003. He supervised successful multiyear contract research collaborations with leading agro and pharma companies. Dr. Gerencsér received a master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Technology and Economics of Budapest. He is a co-author of over 10 peer-reviewed publications, co-inventor in several patents and holds an honorary associate professor title at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Beside his scientific and management activities he also actively participated in the development and introduction of ComGenex’s proprietary LIMS including an ELN module in the early 2000’s.
Emese Kis
Scientific Director
Emese Kis
Scientific Director
Dr. Kis received a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology from University of Technology and Economics of Budapest, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Szeged. She began her career at SOLVO in 2003 as a scientist in the Research and Development Laboratory. Her focus was on development of various membrane transporter assays and she was involved in a number of scientific grants and international collaborations. From 2014 she became the Head of Production Laboratory, with overall responsibility for cell membrane preparations and assay development. She was subsequently promoted to oversee operational management of the R&D department in 2016. Since 2018 she has held the position of Scientific Director, responsible for the operation of all laboratories at senior management level. Dr. Kis has contributed to 22 peer reviewed scientific papers.
Zsuzsanna Gáborik
Head of R&D
Zsuzsanna Gáborik
Head of R&D
Zsuzsanna Gáborik received a master’s degree in Bioengineering from the University of Technology and Economics, Budapest. She earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Semmelweis University, Budapest, and started her academic carrier at the Department of Physiology at the Semmelweis University, focusing on the molecular mechanism of GPCR activation and trafficking. She joined SOLVO in 2011, and took over the operational management of the Research and Development Laboratory in 2016. She is currently the Head of Research and Development, overseeing assay and cell line developments, research projects and special customer projects. To date, she has contributed to 24 peer reviewed scientific publications.
Roelof Hendrik De Wilde
Director of Business Development, Europe and Asia-Pacific
Roelof Hendrik De Wilde
Director of Business Development, Europe and Asia-Pacific
Roelof de Wilde received his MSc degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology with an orientation on management from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He started his professional career as Study Director at SOLVO Biotechnology, Budapest, Hungary, where his main responsibilities were conducting contract-based research in the lab on drug-membrane transporter interactions. From 2012 to 2016 he served clients in North American territory as Study Manager, during which he was responsible for close to 200 contract research studies. During this period, he designed a series of data analysis and interpretation templates to streamline internal data processing in addition to helping implement new techniques to study transporter interactions in SOLVO’s labs (including hepatocyte uptake and B-clear® assays). In 2016 his responsibilities increased with a new role as Head of the North-American team, moving into a more business oriented position. Following this and after a short transition period as Head of the European team he was promoted to Director of Sales in the end of 2017, becoming responsible for both the European and Asian-Pacific business development. Backed up by his strong technical background and experience working with clients in the pharmaceutical industry globally, he is currently managing a team of several Study- and Account Managers.
Zoltán Tímár
Head of the Bioanalytical Laboratory
Zoltán Tímár
Head of the Bioanalytical Laboratory
Zoltán Timár graduated in organic chemistry at University of Szeged in 2000, has a record of academic research at Bristol University, École Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris and University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr Timár has authored publications and patents, applying novel synthetic organic and analytical chemistry techniques at the Nucleic Acid Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies in Boulder, Colorado as an expert scientist. His main interest is in commercializing scientific research methods and products in the fields of pharmaceuticals and analytical sciences. His contribution to industrial research resulted in the worldwide commercialization of the TC-RNA chemistry to synthesize natural and modified RNA molecules over 100 nucleotides long. He developed analytical methodologies and software to sequence oligonucleotides. Dr. Timár is Head of the Bioanalytical Laboratory and Automation, leading a team of PhD scientists, overseeing bioanalytical and automated transporter and drug metabolism assays. Under his leadership, Solvo analytical and automation services strive to continuously develop by best laboratory practices and instrumentation and aiming to be outstanding quality, highly productive and dependable provider for Solvo customers all over the world.
Attila Németh
Director of Service and Automation
Attila Németh
Director of Service and Automation
Dr. Németh has 15 years of experience in the biotechnology and drug development industry, before joining Solvo Biotechnology in 2020, he was most recently a Director of Research and Development at Intrexon Corporation focusing on the commercialization of pharma and biotech projects. Priori he led the Molecular and Cellular Engineering Unit at Codexis Lab Hungary. He is an experienced molecular biologist, high throughput assay scientist, and protein engineer and has demonstrated expertise in synthetic biology and laboratory automation. He started his scientific training as a Pharmaceutical Chemist and moved to study protein chemistry at the Institute of Enzymology, Hungary, and spent several years at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science. Before leaving academia in 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biochemistry, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. Dr. Németh co-authored two international patents and several peer-reviewed papers in international journals and received his Ph.D. from Eotvos Lorand University in 2003.
