R&D staff

Melinda is the lead research scientist 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.

Kata leads the Szeged site of BioTalentum. She is responsible for running the Company’s quality management system. She holds her PhD in Immunology and with five years of experience in assay development, sales and marketing. Her main interests are toxicology assay development and its commercialization.

Maria, as a Senior Laboratory Manager, organizes the general operation of the laboratory in Gödöllő. She graduated as a biologist (MSc) at the University of Pécs. She is mainly involved in the development and implementation of iPS cell culture activities and neurotoxicological studies.

Suchitra is the senior iPSC specialist at BioTalentum with a scientific focus on the generation of stem cell-derived beta-cells and cardiomyocytes. She is an experienced researcher with more than fifteen years in animal cloning, cell biology and specific research activities include oocytes and embryos cryopreservation. She is highly skilled in the use of micromanipulator for somatic cell nuclear transfer.

Anita is the lead molecular biologist. She holds a Cell and Molecular Biology PhD in Theoretical Medicine. She has significant experience in genetic modification of hESC/hiPSC lines and mice using advanced approaches such as CRISPR/Cas9, TALEN and piggyBac systems.

Zofia is the lead toxicologist. She is an experienced statistician; her main interests are in vitro toxicology on developing human neuronal cells and toxicological characterization of environmental chemicals and drugs. Zofia studied animal physiology and then obtained a PhD in Embryology.

Andrea is a molecular and cell biologist holding a PhD in Theoretical Medicine. Her main interest are the exocrine and endocrine pancreas and Regenerative Medicine. At BioTalentum, she participates in stem cell research by the development of pancreatic beta cell differentiation. Currently she is on maternity leave.

Kornel is a cardiac specialist at BioTalentum with a scientific focus on generation of mature hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. He is a biotechnologist and he holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. He is a postdoctoral researcher with more than ten years of experience in cardiac cellular electrophysiology and patch clamping of cardiomyocytes.

Eszter graduated as a biochemical engineer and gained five years of experience in industrial R&D. Subsequently she switched to the field of stem cell biology in which she did her PhD studies. The main directions of her research were the development and optimization of neural differentiation protocols and the creation of stem cell-based neural disease models.