Managing Director

BIA Separations, a Sartorius Company

 

Aleš Štrancar is the managing director of BIA Separations, a Sartorius Company, and one of the main inventors of the Convective Interaction Media (CIM) next-generation chromatographic support. He is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific papers dealing with separation and purification technologies. He is a co-author of five granted USA patents and their foreign equivalents in the field of biomolecule separations and purification. He also has co-authored several book chapters dealing with novel chromatography technologies for biomolecule separation. He has co-developed several industrial scale purification processes for companies such as Octapharma (e.g., FIX purification of human plasma protein), Boehringer Ingelheim (plasmid DNA), and Krka of Novo mesto, Slovenia.