Zoltan Kiss, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Zoltan Kiss, Ph.D. - He founded Zoltan Kiss Consulting biotechnological company in
2016 for which now he serves as the President and CEO. This family-owned company is
based, for the most part, on his extensive research showing that a human protein
normalizes blood glucose in a widely used experimental rat model of pancreatitis causing
type 3c diabetes.
*About the Founder: Zoltan Kiss, Ph.D., had an extensive academic research career before
founding and leading several biotechnological companies. Until 2004, he was Professor
and Section Leader at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he was a Senior
Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (4 years) and held several faculty positions
in the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Kiss holds a Ph.D. degree, and his research so far has resulted
in 114 peer-reviewed articles and 27 issued international patents on the treatments of cancer
cachexia, wounds, and various metabolic disorders. All his issued patents are now owned by
MNPHARM, LLP, a Minnesota biotech company. Most recently, Dr. Kiss has been focusing on
finding effective interventions to normalize excess visceral obesity and determining the
nature of relationships between visceral fat and various metabolic disorders in appropriate
mouse models. In addition, he has other research interests as well, including treatment of
type 3c diabetes and cancer cachexia, as listed on this website.