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CV of Attila Kigyos
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Attila Kigyós graduated at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1992 as a chemist. In his thesis he investigated different gas chromatography measurement methods for instrumental detection of volatile organic compounds released by plants.
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In 1993 he participated in some intensive complementary courses to improve his faculty in developing new methods of gas chromatography measurement at the Eindhoven Technical University in The Netherlands.
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From 1994 to 1997 he was a fellow and demonstrator in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
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From 1998 he leads private companies as executive manager in IT and biotech fields as well.
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CV of Jozsef Tovari, PhD
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Dr. József Tóvári, PhD, is the founder and Chief Research Officer of Kineto Lab Research and Development Ltd., senior scientist at the Department of Tumor Biology, National Korányi Institute of TB and Pulomonology, Budapest.
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After graduating as a biologist at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1994, he continued his former research activities at the 1st Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research of the Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest.
His main field of interest was the investigation of tumor metastasis including cell migration, invasion and interaction with extracellular matrices.
From the finishing of his PhD thesis in 1999 (title: Regulation of tumor cell – extracellular-matrix interaction in tumor metastasis process) he is working in the so called Metastasis Research Group in the National Institute of Oncology, Budapest and the National Koranyi Institute of TB and Pulmonology, Budapest.
He was visiting scientist in Finnland (University of Turku) and Switzerland (ETH) several times for various time periods with the help of joint research grants.
He is member of three scientific associations (AACR, EACR, MOT) and supervises research works of three PhD. and several undergraduate students from the faculty of natural science or medicine.
His scientific work was awarded with Young Scientist Award (2000), György Miklós Award (2005) and Bolyai Scholarship (2001-2004) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, EJC-Pharmamar Grant for young scientist (2004) and AACR-NCI International Investigator Opportunity Grants (2008). Dr. Tóvári holds lectures on cell motility and tumor angiogenesis for biology and physics students in Semmelweis University with the help of the Hungarian “Öveges” scholarship.
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