Ales Strancar PhD

Dr. Ales Strancar, the CEO of the Company and one of the main inventors of the CIM Convective Interaction Media® (new generation of chromatographic support), after finishing MSc at University of Ljubljana headed the parent company BIA for 8 years. Beside the main activity, selling and servicing pharma lab equipment, BIA was active in R&D. In 1998 the CIM project got a venture capital investment and new company BIA Separations was funded and is headed by Strancar since then.

Dr. Ales Strancar is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific papers dealing with separation and purification technologies. He is a co-author of 5 granted USA patents and their foreign equivalents in the field of biomolecule separations and purification. As well he is a co-author of several book chapters dealing with novel chromatography technologies for biomolecule separation.

He co-developed several industrial scale purification processes, among them for company Octapharma (FIX - human plasma protein), Vienna, for company Boehringer Ingelheim (plasmid DNA), Vienna and for company Krka, Novo mesto. Ales Strancar holds a position of Assistant Professor at the Biotechnical Faculty of University of Ljubljana. He was President of the Technology Council of the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Slovenia and Member of Science and Technology Council of the Republic of Slovenia. He has been named Slovenian.