| Dr. Imre Molnár |
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 Dr. Imre Molnár, born in Budapest, Hungary, studied at the University of Saarbrücken, which was during that time a "Special Research Center for Analytical Chemistry" (Sonderforschungsbereich Analytische Chemie) in Germany. He graduated in 1971 and prepared his thesis on a separation technique for instable non-metallic compounds and received his PhD in 1975. He spent the following two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Bioengineering at Yale University, in New Haven USA, with Csaba Horváth, who was the pioneer of the new technique "High Pressure Liquid Chromatography" (HPLC) in life sciences. From this collaboration eleven papers were published, the most important three of them deal with the fundamentals of "Reversed Phase Chromatography" (RPC), well known as the highly cited "Theory of Solvophobic Interactions".
Returning back to Europe he worked five years in Berlin with Knauer and developed a number of new HPLC instruments. In 1981 he founded the Molnár-Institute of applied chromatography. Additionally he taught several years RPC at the Free University of Berlin and in many pharmaceutical companies in Europe. Since 1984 Imre Molnár started to work with Lloyd R. Snyder, John W. Dolan and Tom Jupille from LC Resources Inc., on the development of the DryLab software, which is nowadays widely recognized in the pharmaceutical industry and in the life science community. There are more than 130 scientific papers published on the development of DryLab®, which is a visualization tool for complex separation processes in HPLC, enabeling the user to reduce the number of experiments for a method by a large factor to the few best experiments.
In 2006 the software DryLab was sold to the Molnár-Institute and is developed further since then in Berlin. The new features concern a number of new two- and three-dimensional models and include the peak tracking tool PeakMatch® and a column selectivity database ColumnMatch, originally developed by Lloyd R.Snyder and his research group..
Imre Molnár has more than 30 years of experience in the development of HPLC instruments, in column production and in HPLC applications. He is specialized in pharmaceutical research and analysis and works with universities and industrial groups on research topics in pharmaceutical and biopolymer analysis. He is a well known trainer of HPLC courses for RPC and for the development of robust HPLC methods using DryLab® 2010. |
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