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Innovative diagnostic solutions for acute and critical care conditions

We are committed to improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostic solutions for acute and critical care that allow the diagnosis, outcome prediction, and monitoring of patients with acute medical conditions.

SphingoTec is a privately held company located in Hennigsdorf near Berlin, Germany. With a long history of biomarker discovery, development, and validation, we develop and market innovative IVD solutions for our novel and proprietary blood-based protein biomarkers. 
Our aspiration is to effectively translate scientific advancements into routine clinical practice. We develop biomarkers addressing diagnostically underserved acute and critical care conditions such as sepsis, acute heart failure, and acute kidney injury, which are some of the biggest mortality drivers worldwide.

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26. March 2024

SphingoTec Announces Management Changes

SphingoTec is pleased to announce the following appointments to its management team: Deborah Bergmann as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Florian Uhle as Managing Director and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Nicole Witzmann as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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05. October 2023

New Formula Leverages Proenkephalin A 119-159 (penKid) for Improved GFR Estimation in Steady-State and Critically Ill Patients

A new, improved formula has been developed for estimating the GFR using kidney function biomarker penKid. According to the data, penKid strongly correlates with the measured GFR (mGFR), while the penKid-based formula for estimating GFR performs better than routinely used equations.
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06. September 2023

International Experts Highlight Demand for Diagnostic Innovations as PenKid's Research and Real-World Data Fuels Quest for Improved RRT Liberation Tools

A new study and real-world data on the kidney function biomarker penKid underline its potential to monitor kidney function during acute kidney injury (AKI) and RRT and to support liberation decisions from RRT.
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06. October 2023

europeanhhm.com: Improving GFR Estimation in Steady-State and Critically Ill Patients through the Application of Proenkephalin A 119-159 (penKid) in a Novel Formula

SphingoTec GmbH has introduced an improved formula for estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) using its kidney function biomarker, penKid. Their data indicates a strong correlation between penKid and measured GFR (mGFR), surpassing the performance of commonly used GFR estimation equations.
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31. August 2023

360dx.com: Boditech Med, SphingoTec Ink Commercialization Deal for Kidney Injury Test

Point-of-care test developer Boditech Med and biomarker developer SphingoTec announced that they entered a commercialization agreement for a point-of-care blood test to assess kidney function and acute kidney injury.
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10. July 2023

biomedcentral.com: Personalized medicine in the ICU

The Thematic Series share thoughts based on scientific data and help the clinician to individualize the different aspects of the patient management. They list the following paper: Evaluation of Proenkephalin A 119–159 for liberation from renal replacement therapy: an external, multicenter pilot study in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
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Watch our upcoming and latest Webinars on demand

Find out about the latest breakthroughs in clinical diagnostics and get valuable insights from international healthcare experts. To help improve patient management in acute and critical care conditions, we have created a series of webinars that look at the latest diagnostic innovations and how they influence today's clinical practice. Click here to see all available Webinars.

23.01.2023

The implementation of a novel kidney function biomarker in clinical routine

Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Gernot Marx | Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen

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07.09.2022

Using bio-ADM and penKid for optimization of AHF management in daily clinical practice

Speaker: Prof. John Parissis MD, PhD,  Attikon General Hospital

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28.04.2022:

Using Proenkephalin as a Novel Biomarker to Estimate GFR

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Pickkers, Radboud University, Nijmegen

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Manual assay pipetting in the lab
Pipetting a microtiter plate assay
SphingoTec Office Hennigsdorf
SphingoTec Office Hennigsdorf/Berlin