Research group leader: PD Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf

Director; Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Centralised Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Jena University Hospital (UKJ)

Publications

Research Interests

• Health Integrated Biobanking
• Operation of the Integrated Biobank Jena (IBBJ)
• Development of guidelines for organization and quality control of biobanks
• Molecular diagnostics and novel analytical methods, mass spectrometry, raman spectroscopy
• Search for new and clinical evaluation of innovative sepsis-markers
• General clinical chemistry and pathobiochemistry

Activities in the scientific community

• Member and one of the spokepersons of the board of the German Biobank Network (GBN)
• Speaker Competence Field Biobanks & Informatics of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine e. V.
• Vice chairman and board member of the TMF e.V. ("Telematikplattform - Verbund zur Förderung vernetzter Medizinischer Forschung (TMF) e.V.")
• Spokesperson of the Biobanking working group of the TMF e.V.
• Member of the scientific advisory board Interdisziplinäre Biomaterial- und Datenbank Würzburg (IBDW)
• Member of the external scientific advisory board of the BioBank Dresden (BBD)
• Associate editor Biobanking; Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Research activities

• WeCaRe - ChaT - Development of a digital communication and support platform designed to facilitate patient-centered communication and improve access to healthcare-related information and services
• A Biobankplatform for Germany (BPD) – Development of decentralised structures to form a comprehensive, service-oriented platform that enables the sustainable use of health data and biological samples
• LPI - Collaboration in several subprojects for the establishment of the Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research, e.g. LPI-BT2 "Collaborative project: phtonic interaction asseys for POCT/high-throughput platforms-Photonics meets POCT/HTP" with the Jena subproject "Exploration of requirements from a clinical perspective and reference methods."
• German Biobank Network (GBN) - Quality assurance liquid samples