A Team of Highly Qualified Laboratory Scientists and Entrepreneurs

About Our Company

History

A passion for developing efficient processes to improve the productivity of early discovery labs led Laszlo Varady, Ph.D., to found Rilas
Technologies in 2009.

Unwavering Support of Medicinal Chemists

Rilas has created a series of focused, groundbreaking services whose sole purpose is to free medicinal chemists from routine work so that they can pursue scientific discovery.

The hallmarks of Rilas’ services are pragmatism, simplicity and contribution. With deep expertise, Rilas helps discovery labs improve productivity, utilization, costs and breakthroughs.

Unique Service Models

Rilas has identified several significant opportunities to support the mission and goals of the drug discovery lab.

  • Rilas In Sourcing™

    reduces inefficiencies of outsourcing by placing Rilas’ expert chemists on site, at the client’s bench top. Guaranteeing same-day results, Rilas also provides 100% utilization and efficiency.

  • Rilas Lab™

    provides fast and affordable chiral and achiral separations with a greater than 95% success rate. With analytical and preparative SFC and mass directed HPLC equipment, Rilas is capable of milligram to tens of grams scale separations.

  • Rilas Consulting™

    demonstrates the Rilas passion for creating scientific best practices. Rilas Consulting™ works with companies to develop a purchasing strategy, methodology and work-flow to maximize efficiency and productivity.

Management

  • Laszlo Varady, Ph.D.

    Founder and CEO

Laszlo has built his career successfully creating scientific advantages that help businesses reach their goals.

With 30 years experience in organic and surface chemistry, separation science and biochemistry, Laszlo’s comprehensive understanding of both synthesis and purification is unsurpassed. He founded Rilas Technologies in 2009 to offer groundbreaking services to medicinal chemistry labs that are tasked with meeting both operational and scientific challenges. An industry game changer, Rilas In Sourcing™ eliminates all of the inefficiencies of outsourcing at a competitive price. With this service, companies increase utilization, reduce costs and focus medicinal chemists on discovery.

Laszlo and his team of chemists also provide world-leading purification and separation services through Rilas Lab™ and Rilas Consulting™, so that scientists from any size company can benefit from Rilas’ expertise.

Prior to founding Rilas, Laszlo worked as a Vice President at Anthill Technologies, where he managed the company’s high throughput purification and analysis. Laszlo spent almost nine years at ArQule where he managed the Application Development group and developed solid phase synthetic methods on Agarose leading to a set of ligands
for protein affinity chromatography.

Prior to ArQule Laszlo was Director of Surface Chemistry at PerSeptive Biosystems where he developed a wide range chromatographic stationary phases based on a coated polystyrene for
biomolecule separations.

Laszlo got his M.S. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph. D. in Biochemistry from Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He also completed post-doctoral work with Professor Csaba Horvath, Ph.D., of Yale University, and Professor Fred Regnier, Ph.D., of Purdue University. Laszlo holds numerous patents and has published a number of papers.

Laszlo and the Rilas chemists provide unwavering support and unsurpassed service to our clients.

  • Gordon Carlson, M.S.

    VP of Business Development

Bringing together science and management, Gordon works with each customer to find the right Rilas solution to ensure the success of our customers.

Gordon brings over 15 years of experience in the biotech sector, most recently leading a team at LabCentral as the Bioanalytical Lab Ops Manager. His experience includes global business development, sales, and field service at Waters and Biotage, as well as organic and peptide chemistry at Ipsen and Aileron. Gordon holds an MS in Engineering Management from Tufts University and a BS in Chemistry from Union College.

Our Clients

World-leading, international pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies currently benefit from Rilas’ services.

Since 2009, both mid and large-sized companies have increased their productivity with Rilas In Sourcing™ at internationally competitive rates. Rilas maintains its reputation for chiral and achiral separation, serving clients from all over the world who demand the highest quality and the most transparent services and communication. From Rilas’ 2,000 square-foot facility in Woburn, MA, Rilas chemists provide chiral and achiral separations from milligrams up to 50 grams scale along with reformatting and high throughput analytical services. Rilas’ customers have also demonstrated increased demand for Rilas Consulting™. Rilas respects the work of all of its clients and will provide references upon request.