Partner 8. BioTalentum Ltd. [BIO], Gödöllő, Hungary

Scientist responsible: Dr. András Dinnyés

BioTalentum Ltd. is a research start-up company established in 2005. The co-founder and director of BioTalentum Ltd is Prof. András Dinnyés, DVM. He has been working on embryology, cloning and stem cell biology since 1985. He has an MBA-level degree in management, and several years of international experience in project and team management.

Focus areas of the activities for the company has a mission of research and development of new animal models and cellular systems for biomedical research and drug testing, and to provide technical services for research teams and pharmaceutical industry based on it's state-of-the-art technological know-how.

BioTalentum Ltd. provides the following scientific services for its partners: 

• establishment, differentiation of embryonic stem cell lines
• in vitro cell culturing
• gene targeting, transgenic technologies
• transgenic cell line production
• molecular biology analyses (PCR, TaqMan assay, microarray)
• cryopreservation of embryos and sperms

The company is very active in European research, as BIO is full research partner in four FP6 projects and in several FP7 projects. In 5 of these BioTalentum is the coordinator of the project. These projects provide an intensive interaction with ERA teams from both academia and industry.

Furthermore, BioTalentum has a branch specialized on project management for biomedical research, and provides such services for national and EU FP7 projects:

• partner search, proposal writing and support in submission
• technical and administrative management of the grant preparation phase, support for the budget preparation
• complete contract negotiation support (through intensive communication with all partners, preparation of scientific, administrative annexes, Consortium Agreement)
• coordination and administrative management of complete projects (report preparation and submission; project progress monitoring; organization of project meetings, reviews, workshops)

5 main publications

1. DINNYES, A., X. C. TIAN, J. XU, B. OBACK: Nuclear transfer for cloning animals. In: Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine (2nd edition), WILEY-VCH Verlag, US and Germany 2005. pp 203-248.

2. WILMUT I., N. BEAUJEAN, P. A. DE SOUSA, A. DINNYES, T. J. KING, L. A. PATERSON, D. N. WELLS and L. E. YOUNG: Somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature 2002. 419:583-587.

3. XUE F, X. TIAN, F. DU, C. KUBOTA, M. TANEJA, A. DINNYES, Y. DAI, H. LEVINE, L. V. PEREIRA, and X. YANG: Aberrant patterns of X chromosome inactivation in bovine clones. Nature Genetics 2002 Vol. 31:216-220.

4. DINNYES A., TIAN XC and YANG X.: Cloning of Rabbits. In  Principles of Cloning (Eds:Cibelli, JB, Lanza, R., Campbell, K., West, MD), Academic Press, USA, 2002 Chapter 17. pp. 343-366.

5. DENNING C., S. BURL, A. AINSLIE, J. BRACKEN, A. DINNYES, J. FLETCHER, T. KING, M. RITCHIE, W.R. RITCHIE, M. ROLLO, P. DE SOUSA, A. TRAVERS, I. WILMUT, A. J. CLARK: Deletion of the a(1,3)galactosyl transferase (GGTA1) gene and the prion protein (PrP) gene in sheep. Nature Biotechnology 2001. Vol. 19. pp. 559-562.

Link:

http://www.biotalentum.eu/