Peter B. Luppa

Peter B. Luppa is a clinical pathologist and heads the core clinical chemistry laboratory of the Institut für Klinsche Chemie und Pathobiochemie at the university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar. He graduated from the university of Regensburg with a Diploma in Chemistry in 1979 and then from the university of Erlangen-Nuerenberg with a state examination in medicine in 1986. He also received the medical doctor degree from this university. As from 1986 he spent his further specialization in clinical pathology as senior fellow at the Institut für Klinische Chemie, Klinikum Großhadern der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and from October 1992 at the Institut für Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie der Technischen Universität München (TUM). He received the appointment as Associate Professor by the TUM in September 2002. Peter B. Luppa heads the Core Clinical Chemistry Laboratory in the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry (Chair: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ruland) since January 2012. He also conducts the blood bank and is responsible physician for transfusion medicine at the Klinikum rechts der Isar (as from September 2009). Additionally, he is the POCT director for the Klinikum as from September 2003 and responsible for the comprehensive quality management of all peripheral POCT devices in the hospital. Peter B. Luppa runs a research laboratory for optical biosensor developments. His research interests span biosensorics in autoantibody detection and innovative POCT technologies. He published 152 original peer-reviewed articles (listed in PubMed, as of Oct 2023). Other notable achievements in the field of POCT are: • Head of the section for POCT of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and laboratory medicine (DGKL) since 2005. • Editor of the first German textbook on POCT, published by Springer. The third edition was published in June 2017, followed by the first English edition in July 2018. • Founder of the biannually organized international “Munich POCT Symposium”, the 5th conference being scheduled September 27-29, 2022. • Board member of INSTAND e.V., one of the certified ring trial organizations in Germany, and responsible for the POCT ring trials. Peter B. Luppa lives in Munich, is married since 1993 and father of three adult sons.