Congress report: 5th Munich POCT Symposium, September 27–29, 2022, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München

von JLM | März 22, 2023 | Original Papers

The POCT section of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) has organized the 5th Munich POCT Symposium on the subject of “New Horizons for Cross-Sectional Technologies and Extended Application Areas”. The international symposium had been postponed several times due to the corona pandemic and could finally be held in presence in September 2022 (Figure 1). The Congress president Peter B. Luppa, TU Munich, organized a total of nine sessions which were mostly chaired by the members of the POCT section. The Scientific Committee was formed by Francesco Baldini (Florenz/IT), Roman Fried (Zürich/CH), Maria Luisa Hortas (Marbella/ES), Ralf Junker (Kiel/DE), James Nichols (Nashville, TN/US), Robbert Slingerland (Zwolle/NL), Antonio Buño Soto (Madrid/ES), William Clarke (Baltimore, MD/US), Leslie Donato (Rochester, MN/US), Markus Herrmann (Graz/AT), Oswald Sonntag (Munich, DE), Andrei Tintu (Rotterdam/NL), and Michel Vaubourdolle (Paris/FR). The local Munich committee was composed of Kathrin Tinnefeld and Susanne Weber.