Department Of Clinical Biochemistry

Department of Clinical Biochemistry are characterised by being a cross-disciplinary field coupling research, development, laboratory activities and clinical tasks. These specialist areas experience rapid development, and particularly the areas of molecular diagnostics and mass spectrometry has become increasingly important for patients and physicians.

Department of Clinical Biochemistry has approx. 230 employees including professors, consultants, senior house officers, registrars, biochemists, laboratory technicians, secretaries and service employees. The majority of the staff are laboratory technicians, who also are responsible for blood drawing at the hospital. Blood samples from outpatients are drawn at the Departments outpatient clinic. Modern technology ensures efficient management, reliable analysis results from patient samples and short response times.

The Department yearly produces around 12.6 million analysis results (2023).

Department of Clinical Biochemistry is also a university department and therefore has a comprehensive research unit, which is associated to University of Southern Denmark, SDU. The research unit has multiple and diverse research areas including decision support, stem cell-based therapy, circulating blood-biomarkers for prediction, diagnosis and management of disease as well as analytical method development..

The department is also engaged in implementation of new technologies, automation of manual procedures and artificial intelligence, at a research level as well as for future routine strategies.

Focus areas

• Applied Clinical Biochemistry - PI. Assoc. Prof. Mads Nybo
• Artery disease research - PI. Prof. Lars Melholt Rasmussen
• Clinical Proteomics - PI. Prof. Hans Christian Beck
• Decision Support - PI. Prof Pernille Just Vinholt
• DNA/RNA biomarkers - PI. Assoc. Prof Søren Feddersen
• Metals and trace elements biomarkers - PI. Assoc. Prof Louise Helskov Jørgensen
• Pregnancy biomarkers - PI. Assoc. Prof Martin Overgaard
• Regenerative medicine - PI. Prof. Ditte Caroline Andersen

https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/kliniskbiokemi