David C. Kasper

David Kasper (1980) graduated from the Vienna University of Technology and holds doctorates both in technical science and in medical science (2006). After his “Habilitation” (2011), he became Associate Professor and within 6 years, Head of the Main Clinical Laboratory of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, the Austrian Newborn Screening Program and the Laboratory for Inherited Metabolic Disorders.

David is very active to develop different methodologies to expand the screening panel, such as lysosomal storage disorders, immuno assays and next generation sequencing for genetic confirmatory testing from dried blood spots. His career long biomedical research focus has been on different topics in pediatrics such as neonatal infectiology, oncology, nephrology and hematology. Hereby, his specific focus is on the development and evaluation of novel laboratory assays in routine environment to improve and accelerate diagnostics in child.