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Dr. Imre Molnár
Dr. Imre Molnár, President of Molnár-Institute, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied at the University of Saarbrücken, which at that time was a "Special Research Center for Analytical Chemistry" in Germany. He received his PhD in 1975 with a thesis study on a separation technique for instable non-metallic compounds. He spent the following two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Bioengineering at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, studying with Csaba Horváth, a pioneer in the, (then) new technique "High Pressure Liquid Chromatography" (HPLC). From this collaboration, eleven papers were published, the most important three of which described the fundamentals of "Reversed-Phase Chromatography" (RPC) — in particular, the well-known "Theory of Solvophobic Interactions."
Dr. Molnár returned to Europe to work with Dr. Herbert Knauer on the development of HPLC instrumentation. In 1981 he founded the Molnár-Institute for Applied Chromatography. During that time, he also taught reversed-phase chromatography at the Free University of Berlin and pharmaceutical companies throughout Europe.
Imre Molnár has more than 30 years of experience in the development of HPLC instruments, columns, and 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 conducts a series of HPLC courses on reversed-phase HPLC and the development of robust HPLC methods using DryLab® and PeakMatch®.
In 1984, Imre Molnár began working with Lloyd R. Snyder, John W. Dolan, and Tom Jupille of LC Resources Inc. (Walnut Creek, CA, USA) on the development of DryLab® software, which is now widely used 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 modeling tool for complex separation processes in HPLC, enabling the user to minimize the number of experiments required to develop an optimized method. In 2006, Molnár-Institute obtained full rights to DryLab software and has continued its development. Additional two- and three-dimensional models have been added, as well as the peak tracking tool, PeakMatch®, and a column selectivity database ColumnMatch, originally developed by Lloyd R.Snyder and his research group.
Dr. Imre Molnár, President of Molnár-Institute, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied at the University of Saarbrücken, which at that time was a "Special Research Center for Analytical Chemistry" in Germany. He received his PhD in 1975 with a thesis study on a separation technique for instable non-metallic compounds. He spent the following two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Bioengineering at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, studying with Csaba Horváth, a pioneer in the, (then) new technique "High Pressure Liquid Chromatography" (HPLC). From this collaboration, eleven papers were published, the most important three of which described the fundamentals of "Reversed-Phase Chromatography" (RPC) — in particular, the well-known "Theory of Solvophobic Interactions."