Viktor Farkas
PhD

Mail address: Email: Tel: Fax:

H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32, Hungary viktor@chem.elte.hu +36-1-372-2500 /1730, 1438 +36-1-372-2620

Short CV:

• Komló (Hungary), 14^th August 1977

• Hungarian

• Research fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös L. University, Laboratory for chiroptical structure analysis

• Ph.D. Eötvös University, School of Chemistry, Synthetic chemistry, material science and biomolecular program, 2007
• MSc in chemistry Eötvös University, (specialization in drug research), 2001

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven fellowship;
  Interdisciplinary Research Center, K.U.L. Campus Kortrijk, Belgium, 4 months between 2002-2006

• Gedeon Richter Ltd., research grant (2005. 01. 01.- 06. 30.);
• Foundation for the Hungarian Peptide and Protein Research, research grant (2005. 07. 01.- 12. 31.)

• Synthesis (SPPS) and conformational analysis of peptides
• Binding of metal ions and organic compounds to supramolecular complexes
• Development of chiral HPLC columns, HPLC of peptides, optical spectroscopy (ECD, VCD, FTIR)

• Hungarian Chemists' Conference, Poster Award, 2003
• Publication Award of the Lajos Kisfaludy Foundation, 2004

• French (fluent)
• English (conversational level)

• Viktor Farkas, Tünde Tóth, György Orosz, Péter Huszthy, Miklós Hollósi:
  Enantioseparation of protonated primary aralkylamines and amino acids containing an aromatic moiety on a pyridino-crown ether based new chiral stationary phase
  Tetrahedron: Asymmetry (2006) 17(12): 1883-1889
  [abstract]
  
  
• Viktor Farkas, Elemér Vass, Ignace Hanssens, Zsuzsa Majer, Miklós Hollósi:
  Cyclic peptide models of the Ca2+-binding loop of a-lactalbumin.
  Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry (2005) 13(17): 5310-5320
  [abstract]
  
  
• Viktor Farkas, Luca Szalay, Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, György Horváth, Péter Huszthy:
  Probing the discriminating power of chiral crown hosts by CD spectroscopy
  Chirality (2003) 15(S1): 65-73.
  [abstract]
  
  

My favourites :)

• Websites design:
  • Protein Modelling Group (http://www.chem.elte.hu/departments/protmod/eng/index_eng.htm)
  • Laboratory for chiroptical structure analysis (http://www.chem.elte.hu/departments/kiro)
  
  
• Greatest Hits in this month: :)
  • Seiges Even: Paramount (http://www.siegeseven.com)
  • Threshold: Hypothetical (http://www.thresh.net)
  • Katan: Katan (http://www.katan.hu)
  • K3: Under A Spell (http://www.k3music.hu)