Medizinische Fakultät

Universitätskliniken Inselspital

Department of Clinical Chemistry

Inselspital Bern

The Department of Clinical Chemistry provides clinical services within the Center for Laboratory Medicine, our laboratory specialists ensure a high professional quality of the analyses and effective workflows. A wide range of research services support local clinical research groups and international consortia.

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Profile

  • Teaching students of medicine, biomedicine, bioinformatics, biochemistry, pharmacy, biology, epidemiology, as well as graduate students at the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)
  • 7 research groups
  • Research focus: translational research, clinical research, and precision medicine
  • Aim: to translate scientific knowledge into clinically useful biomarkers and digital algorithms for more individualized treatments
  • Specific research topics: pharmacogenomics and drug metabolism, liquid biopsy, inherited metabolic diseases, clinical cytomics, thrombosis and haemostasis, and computational medicine

External Partners

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Laboratory of Biometry, University of Thessaly, Greece; Department of Statistics and OR, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Department of Medical Oncology & Hematology, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland; mitoNet (DACH-research Network for mitochondrial medicine

Grants

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (grant No. 310030-188762; 192691; 320030-212583, 215574 IZCOZ0_213352, 325230_215574, Spark grant No: 190686; Kohortenstudie Gross 201385 (co-applicant); 196059 (project partner)
  • Swiss Personalized Health Network:  INFRA: INFection Radar; LUCID-NDS (co-applicant); Cohort Demonstrator (co-applicant)
  • PIPKIN-Foundation
  • Krebsforschung Schweiz: KFS-5668-08-2022
  • ID-Grant Uni Bern