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László Orbán
Summary
László Orbán obtained his university diploma (1981) and doctoral degree (1983) at József Attila University (now Szeged University) in Hungary. He received postdoctoral training in the laboratory of János Nemcsók (JAU; ’83-86) and Andreas Chrambach (NIH; '86-89), respectively. In 1989, he established the first fish molecular biology lab of Hungary at the Agricultural Biotechnology Center (Gödöllő) and led it for ten years. From 1998 until 2002 he was a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, Singapore, then between 2001-2017 a Senior Principal Investigator at Temasek Life Sciences lab (Singapore). Between 2018 and 2025 he was a Senior Research Advisor at the Georgikon Faculty of the University of Pannonia, then the Georgian Campus of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Keszthely, Hungary). He has been in retirement since June, 2025. Over the past two decades, he has been the lead PI of several large-scale projects on aquaculture-related R&D, including an NRF-sponsored CRP project on a selection program to produce elite lines of food fishes in Singapore and a Frontline Research Excellence Project in Hungary. Together with his colleagues, Dr. Orbán published 115 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and six book chapters. Past member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Aquaculture and past Academic Editor of PLoS ONE. Current member of the joint Editorial Board of Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.
Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Genomics Marine Biology Molecular Biology