Research group leader: PD Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf

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

Group Members

Publications

Research Interests

• Helath 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

• Vice chairman and board member of the TMF e.V. ("Telematikplattform - Verbund zur Förderung vernetzter Medizinischer Forschung (TMF) e.V.")
• Leader of the Workinggroup "Biobanking" of the Deutsche Vereinte Gesellschaft
  für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin e.V. (DGKL)
• Member of the scientific advisory board Kompetenznetz Asthma und COPD
• Member of the scientific advisory board Interdisziplinäre Biomaterial- und Datenbank Würzburg (IBDW)
• Member of the scientific advisory board biobank popgen
• Vice Spokesperson of the Biobanking working group of the TMF e.V.

Research activities

• German Biobank Alliance (GBA) - WP3 Development of quality management concept for the German Biobank Alliance
• Semantic Text Analytics for Quality Controlled Extraction of Clinical Phenotype Information in Healthcare Integrated Bioban­king (STACI2B2)
• Biobank of the Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC)
• CSCC Research Area B - Novel Diagnostic Tools and Approaches:  Lab-Alerts
  Laboratory nested co-study of the: ”Effectiveness of a Hospital-wide Educational Programme for Infection Control to Reduce the Rate of Health-Care Associated Sepsis"
  
• Biobank of the Pneumonia Research Network on Genetic Resistance and Susceptibility for the Evolution of Severe Sepsis (PROGRESS)

Contact

PD Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf, Institute of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Diagnostics; Universitätsklinikum Jena, Am Klinikum 1, D-07747 Jena,Tel.: +49 (3641) 9-325001
Fax: +49 (3641) 9-325002, eMail:
Secretary: Ellen Hempfe