Csaba Horváth

Csaba Horváth, was born in Hungary and graduated in chemical engineering from the Budapest Institute of Technology. In 1956 he joined Hoechst in Frankfurt, Germany. After receiving his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, he immigrated in 1963 to the USA and became a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the following year, he moved to Yale and served in the School of Medicine and subsequently in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science. In S. R. Lipsky's laboratory at Yale, Csaba Horváth built the first HPLC unit to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of HPLC for the separation of biological substances. He pioneered biochemical engineering in the fields of enzyme engineering and biochemical separation and has authored nearly 300 scientific papers. Csaba Horváth is a member of various scientific societies and a recipient of numerous awards. He is a frequent speaker at international scientific gatherings and consultant to the biotechnology industry. His present teaching responsibilities include Biomedical Engineering I (ChE 351a/BME 351a), Separation Processes (ChE 411a), and Biotechnology (ChE 354b/BME 354b).