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Dr. Csaba Szántay President of the Association of Hungarian Inventors Member of The
Hungarian Academy of Sciencies, Professor of Chemistry Higher
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Dr. Csaba Szántay President of the Association of Hungarian Inventors Member of The
Hungarian Academy of Sciencies, Professor of Chemistry Higher
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Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Csaba Szántay Csaba SZÁNTAY was born in 1928 in Hungary. After taking his chemical engineering degree from the Technical University of Budapest in 1950, he started working in the Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. G. ZEMPLÉN, in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. Later on his interest turned towards alkaloid chemistry, and the title of his Ph.D. thesis, submitted in 1955, was: "Syntheses Starting from Opianic Acid." In l962 he worked for three months in the Institute of Prof. RIECHE in Berlin, and his work resulted in a common publication with E. SCHMITZ about the chemistry of diaziridines. In 1964 he spent a short period in Gif-sur-Yvette (France) financed by C.N.R.S. , where he also dealt with alkaloids in the department of Prof. Janot and Prof. Goutarel. He obtained his "Doctor of Science" degree in 1964 on the ground of his thesis: "Synthesis of Ipecac Alkaloids" In 1965-66 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New-York at Buffalo with Prof. BARDOS at the Medicinal Chemistry Department working on potential cancer therapeutic agents, mainly with nucleosides. In addition to that, he found the first example for a low pyramidal inversion rate of a secondary amino group in aziridines, and made quantitative measurements by the help of NMR concerning the phenomenon. In 1967 he became Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. He was elected to be a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1970. For the last decades he has dealt mainly with the syntheses of natural products, such as yohimbine-, and vinca-type alkaloids, morphine alkaloids, amphibian alkaloid epibatidine, prostanoids, insect hormones and pheromones etc. etc. About 350 publications in international journals, in addition to a few books comprise the results of the above work. He is a regularly invited lecturer at international conferences and congresses. He is co-author of about 300 patents reflecting his good connection with the pharmaceutical industry. He is the president of the Association of Hungarian Inventors. He is a member of the Editorial Board of "Medicinal Research Reviews" ( USA ), an Honorary Advisor to the Editorial Board of "Heterocycles" (Japan) , to the "Natural Product Letters" (Switzerland), and "Trends in Heterocyclic Chemistry" (India). Dr. Csaba
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