Christa Cobbaert

Head of Department of Clinical Chemistry at Leiden University Medical Center

Speaker

Professor Cobbaert is a European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine. She is heading the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, NL since 2009. Her research focuses on Precision Diagnostics with quantitative bottom-up proteomics for accomplishing more sustainable molecular definition of Health and Disease. She currently chairs the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Scientific Division Executive Committee, involved with metrology and standardization of medical tests (http://www.ifcc.org/ifcc-scientific-division/). She is also a member of ISO TC 212 working group 2 on Reference Systems.

In Europe she represents the European Federation in Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) in the IVD subgroup of the Medical Device Coordination Group during meetings with the European Commission on the roll out of the IVDR 2017/746. In this capacity she chairs the EFLM Task Force on European Regulatory Affairs (https://www.eflm.eu/site/page/a/1650).

Her work resulted in ~180 original publications, multiple lectures/webinars and several appointments at (inter)national positions because of her expertise on metrological traceability of test results.