Tuesday 26.08.2025

Schedule	Description
From 08:30	Registration with coffee and croissants
09:00 – 09:05	Welcome words	Dr. Pierre-Alain Binz, PD Dr. Déborah Mathis
09:05 – 10:55	Session I : IVDR : opportunities and challenges Chair: Daniel Müller, Christoph Seger
09:05	Requirements and challenges for in-house IVDs under IvDO/IVDR	Dr. Damian Hertig Scientific Officer Medical Devices, Swissmedic
09:40	The story behind IVDR/IvDO & impact on the industry and the Swiss healthcare system	Bernhard Bichsel, MBA Co-CEO Integrated Scientific Services (ISS) Inc.
10:15	Implementation of the EU Regulation on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (IVDR): First experiences in Germany	Prof. Dr. Michael Vogeser LMU Klinikum (München, D)
10:55 – 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 – 12:20	Session II : Selected talks from abstracts & SSCC Förderpreis presentation Chair: Barbara Rindlisbacher, Laura Millius
11:10	Pre-analytical considerations in the simultaneous quantification of ketone bodies, pyruvate, lactate, and TCA cycle intermediates	Kaitlyn Berchier University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Inselspital Bern, Dr. Risch Medical Laboratory
11:27	Design and assessment of a microsampling-based interlaboratory comparison for phosphatidylethanol analysis	PD Dr. Marc Luginbühl Institut of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital of Zurich
11:45	Evaluation of zinc and antimony contamination in BD blood collection tubes: Identifying whether the source is the tube or the stopper	Delia Faccioli Labordiagnostic St. Gallen West AG
12:02	SSCC Förderpreis presentation	Dr. Henning Nilius University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Inselspital Bern
12:20 – 13:30	Lunch break with poster presentation
13:30 – 14:15	Annual Assembly of the SSCC	Dr. Pierre-Alain Binz President SSCC
14:15 – 16:00	Session III : Patient self-sampling and testing Chair: Viola Günther, Joanna Gawinecka
14:15	Advancing diabetes care: self-testing, sensor technology, and laboratory integration	Prof. Dr. Lilian Witthauer Samlab, University of Bern and Bern University Hospital
14:50	Therapeutic drug monitoring of tacrolimus and mycophenolic acid in outpatient renal transplant recipients using a volumetric dried blood spot sampling device	Prof. Dr. Dirk Jan Moes Leiden University Medical Center
15:25	Cutting-edge innovations in self-testing	Dr. Markus Schmid Industry representative, Roche Diagnostics, Germany
16:00 – 16:15	Coffee break
16:15 – 17:30	Session IV : Healthy aging and self-optimization: what to test? Chair: Philipp Walter, Déborah Mathis
16:20	DNA methylation as biomarker for aging	Prof. Dr. Ursula Amstutz University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital
16:55	Clinical reasoning in micronutrients testing	PD Dr. Stefan Markun Universität Zürich
17:30	Award Ceremony and Closing words	Prof. Carlo Largiadèr University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital
From 17:35	Apéro