Professor András Guttman is heading the Horváth Csaba Memorial Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) and the Translational Glycomics Research Group at the University of Pannonia (Veszprem, Hungary). Dr Guttman graduated from the University of Veszprem (Hungary) in chemical engineering, where he also received his first doctoral degree. His work is focused on capillary electrophoresis and CE-MS-based glycomics as well as glycoproteomics analysis of molecules of biomedical and biopharmaceutical interests. Dr Guttman had previous academic appointments at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria) holding the Marie Curie Chair of the European Commission. His former industrial affiliations included Novartis (La Jolla, CA), Genetic BioSystems (San Diego, CA), and Beckman Instruments (Brea, CA), where he developed high-resolution capillary electrophoresis and microfluidics-based bioanalytical methods. Dr Guttman has published more than 400 scientific papers, and 38 book chapters, authored 1 and edited 4 textbooks, and holds more than 40 patents. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and, past president of the American Chemical Society Hungary Chapter. Prof Guttman is the Editor in Chief for Current Molecular Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of a dozen international scientific journals. He is on the board of the Society of Hungarian Academicians in America and associate director of CASSS. According to a Harvard ranking, Professor Guttman is in the top 0.5% of scientists in the world and has been recognized by numerous awards including the Analytical Chemistry Award of the Hungarian Chemical Society in 2000, the CASSS CE Pharm Award, the Arany Janos Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Pro Scientia award of University of Pannonia in 2013. In 2014 he received the Dennis Gabor Award of the Novofer Foundation. In 2017 Dr Guttman was the recipient of the Dal Nogare Award of the Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum and the Grand Prize of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce. He was a Fulbright Scholar of the US Department of State in 2012 and named a distinguished Brain Pool Fellow of the National Research Foundation of Korea in 2021. Prof Guttman was also the recipient of the 2024 Jedlik Anyos Award of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office and the Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic.