University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Laboratory Diagnostics
Kišpatićeva 12, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Head: Professor Jadranka Sertić, PhD
E-mail: predstojnik.lab@kbc-zagreb.hr
Phone: +385 (01) 23 67 289
The Department of Laboratory Diagnostics is a department of the University Hospital Centre Zagreb where highly specialized and differential laboratory diagnostic tests are performed for patients from all over Croatia. The Department is the basic academic teaching facility of the School of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, and the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
Ever since its foundation in 1980, the main goal of the Department has been introduction and application of recent advances in medical laboratory sciences in order to provide state-of-the-art routine laboratory diagnostic services. Particular attention is paid to the continuous introduction of new laboratory tests, regular participation in international quality assurance schemes (DGKL, EMQN, UK NEQAS), and to development of specific fields of laboratory medicine such as molecular diagnostics that includes monogenic and polygenic diseases, pharmacogenetics, and molecular hematology. In addition, efforts are made to improve subspecialist diagnostics in the fields of metabolic disorders, endocrinology, therapeutic drug monitoring, protein and enzyme biochemistry, and immunology.
Along with routine laboratory practice, the Department experts are actively involved in basic and clinical scientific activities and in under-and postgraduate teaching at several faculties of the Zagreb University and various other universities in Croatia and abroad.
The Department successfully cooperates with eminent scientists and institutions worldwide in the field of laboratory medicine. It has also been the co-founder, together with the Zagreb School of Medicine, of the Division of Functional Genomics where its employees also participate in scientific activities and projects financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, as well as by various international organizations (FP7).
At the end of 2007 the Department of Laboratory Diagnostics was relocated into new modern premises with the state-of-the-art laboratory equipment including automated preanalytical and analytical systems which allow rapid and efficient laboratory sample and data management. In addition, laboratory information system was introduced at that time and it is being continuously expanded and developed to enable automated laboratory data processing and network connection with clinical departments including automated printing of laboratory results.
The Department consists of eighteen divisions that are situated in two locations (Kispaticeva Street - Rebro, and Petrova Street):
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Clinical Unit for Analytical Toxicology and Pharmacology
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Clinical Unit for Biochemistry of Vitamins and Bone Markers
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Clinical Unit for Pharmacogenomics and Therapy Individualization
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Clinical Unit for Gynecological, Perinatal and Andrological Laboratory Diagnostics
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Clinical Unit for Emergency Laboratory Diagnostics
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Clinical Unit for Humoral Immunodiagnostics
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Clinical Unit for Laboratory Diagnostics of Allergic Diseases
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Clinical Unit for Laboratory Diagnostics of Coagulation Disorders
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Clinical Unit for Laboratory Endocrinology
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Clinical Unit for Molecular Diagnostics
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Clinical Unit for Multidisciplinary Application of Chromatography
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Clinical Unit for Hereditary Metabolic Diseases
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Clinical Unit for Neurobiochemistry
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Clinical Unit for General Clinical Biochemistry
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Clinical Unit for Sample Reception and Management
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Clinical Unit for Special Biochemistry
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Clinical Unit for Special and Molecular Hematology
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Clinical Unit for Cellular Immunodiagnostics and In Vitro Procedures
Two reference centres of the Croatian Ministry of Health are active within the Department:
Last updated: apr 27, 2012.
