Meet our team
Our
commitment: Ever since Diagnosticum was established we have been striving to
help our customers by providing high quality and broad
ranging diagnostic services. As part of the big team, the R&D
Laboratory produces reagents, kits and provides custom immunodiagnostic
services in close collaboration with the costumers. Based
on the extensive clinical laboratory, industry and scientific experience of the
team we offer diagnostic and research services tailored to your needs.
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Anita Nyilas is member of
the Production Team.
She has been working at the R&D lab from
1992 as laboratory assistant. She is involved in the daily production
activities, quality control, ensures supply for the laboratory, follows
costumer inquiries; arranges product shipment and the basophil activation test
Gabriella Metzler is Cellular
Diagnostics specialist.
She has been working since 1990 at Diagnosticum as laboratory assistant for the
R&D. She is involved mainly in sterile work with preparative
and diagnostic cell culturing.
Zoltán Hérincs (PhD) is Researcher Biologist.
He has been employed by Diagnosticum since 2012, working on the development of
serological microarrays in autoimmune disease diagnostics and microfluidic
systems. Previously, he was research associate at Semmelweis University
Nanomedicine Research Institute; post-doc fellow at University of Sciences
Eötvös Loránd (Budapest) and PhD student at the Institute of Development
Biology and Cancer, CNRS in Nice. He obtained his PhD degree in 2005 in
biology.
András Gyovai (PhD) is Researcher Biologist.
He has been employed by Diagnosticum since 2017, and works
on the development of diagnostic services based on lymphocyte transformation
tests (LTT). Previously, he was PhD student at the University of Szeged, where
obtained his PhD degree in 2020 in biology.
Hajna Péterfy (PhD) is Deputy R&D Director
of Diagnosticum Zrt.
She coordinates the R&D activities of our research laboratory,
and manages the Basophil Activation Tests. Hajna Péterfy obtained her
MSc diploma in biology at the Eötvös Loránd University and her PhD degree in
Immunology at the Eötvös Loránd University. Earlier, she worked as a visiting
student at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot (Israel). She also worked formerly
as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Biology and
Cancer, CNRS in Nice in the group of ‘Death Receptor Signaling in Cancer
Therapy’.
József Prechl (PhD) is Director of
Research and Development.
He graduated as general medical doctor in 1993 at Semmelweis University, and
then he obtained his PhD in biology in 2003 at Eötvös Loránd University, where
he was employed by the Hungarian Academy of Science until 2017. Before joining
Diagnosticum, he periodically worked at the Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison as visiting scientist on
several occasions. At Diagnosticum his research group has developed protein
arrays for characterization of immune response, particularly for the diagnosis
of autoimmune diseases.
LinkedIn profile, Google scholar, Research Gate profile: József Prechl
ORCID: 0000-0003-3859-4353