Ferenc Darvas

His first job was at the United Pharmaceutical and Nutrition Factory, where he was a development engineer between 1966-74.
He then worked at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Operations Management (NIM IGÜSZI) of the Ministry of Heavy Industry; then he was a specialist director at the Computer Engineering Coordination Institute (SZKI).
After that, he became the director and president of his own companies and groups of companies.

In 1974, he developed a computer-aided drug design method that was used worldwide at the time. In 1986, he was the first to develop an automatic knowledge management method for predicting drug metabolites and an artificial intelligence program that implemented it, which is still widely used worldwide today. In the early 1990s, he was the first in Europe to create liquid-phase combinatorial synthetic chemistry technology, which was implemented by ComGenex Rt, which he founded, Europe's first and in 2001 the largest combinatorial chemistry company. Later, he was the founder and president of ThalesNano Zrt.

Initiator, founder and officer of two international pharmaceutical research societies in the USA; initiator and co-editor for 28 years of the first international journal of drug design in Germany; founder and then president of the Hungarian Section of the American Chemical Society (2006-2009); founding president of the Hungarian and international Flow Chemistry Scientific Societies since 2010. Between 2006 and 2024, he was president of the Dénes Gábor Award Winners Club.

Candidate of Biological Sciences (1983). Visiting Professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville (1986-1990); at the Austrian UMIT University in Innsbruck (2007-2010); later Associate Professor at Florida International University in Miami. Author of numerous patents and over 200 scientific publications, book chapters and books.

Honors: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Award (1978); Outstanding Entrepreneur Award of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in New York (1995); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2000); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Civilian Branch (2010). Winner of the Chicago R&D 100 “Technical Oscar” Award (2005); Industrial Innovation Award (2006) and the Millennium Award of the Hungarian Patent Office (2009); Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2016).