Management

Co-founder and general director of BioTalentum Ltd. He has been working on embryology, cryobiology, cloning and stem cell biology since 1985. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in the US in 1991-92 and worked at the University of Connecticut (US) for 1997-99, where he invented and patented the solid surface vitrification (SSV) technology. In 2000, he joined the cloning team in Roslin Institute (the „Dolly team”) as team leader. His team succeeded in the production of the first gene knock-out lamb, and the first cloned piglet in Europe. He was advisor for Geron Inc, US. In 2001, he has returned to Hungary as a Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow. He is full professor at Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (2008 – ), and at Szeged University (2018 – present), and was invited professor at the Veterinary Faculty of Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2010-2016), and Honorary Professor at Sichuan University, China (2019-2021). He received the Denis Gábor Innovation Award, Hungary in 2013. In 2018, Prof Dinnyés become a member of the Academia Europaea. Expertise in stem cell technologies, cell differentiation, cryopreservation, reproductive technologies, molecular techniques, genetic engineering, assay development; industrial level quality control and new business development. H-index: 42.

Melinda is the scientific director at BioTalentum. Her primary responsibilities are the development of neuronal, microglial differentiation, neurotoxicology and computational biology. She holds a PhD in Human Physiology, she is a bioengineer, with nine years of experience in industrial R&D.

Director – HR, Finance, Business Development of BioTalentum Ltd. She has graduated as Teacher of Biology and Chemistry and obtained PhD and post-doctoral trainings in Organic / Peptide Chemistry at Loránd Eötvös University, Faculty of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, with international fellowships in Spain and Germany. She gained Chartered Accountant and Management of Economical Informatics degrees at the College of Finance & Economy, Budapest, Hungary. Since 1999 she has fulfilled several multinational / European level finance / operational management positions leading up to 20-45 member teams at General Electric Plc., LLP Ltd. and HSBC. She has a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (one of the highest international project management qualification) from General Electric and 15+ year multinational level financial, business and scientific project management experience. She is supporting the general management of BioTalentum – including 20+ European Commission Framework projects, Human Resource management, financial controlling and business development.  Dr. Nagy has seven Scientific (among others Pre-Doctoral & Young Investigator Award of the Biochemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry of United Kingdom and János Bolyai Research Fellowship Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and five Business Awards (GE Management & Spot Awards and GE Stock Options).

Director of Consulting at BioTalentum Ltd. She is an experienced Account and Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting and banking industry (Relationship Manager, Branch Manager). Skilled in Corporate Finance, Banking and Account & Portfolio Management. Strong sales and consulting professional graduated from Szent István University in , Gödöllő. As a Consulting Director, she is responsible for both Hungarian research grants and EU H2020 proposal writing and project management, wide range of dissemination and outreach tasks, keeping contact with national and international partners. She is taking part in development and implementation of sales and marketing strategy and overall decision making process.