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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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09. May 2023

SphingoTec's Innovative IVD Product sphingotest® penKid® Receives First IVDR Certificate

SphingoTec has been successfully re-certified according to ISO 13485 and received its first IVDR certificate for its IVD product sphingotest® penKid®.
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04. April 2023

ADQI Group Recognizes PenKid as Relevant Functional Biomarker for Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury

The Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) has published a consensus statement that strongly recommends using innovative biomarkers to improve the management of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI).
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23. February 2023

SphingoTec Appoints Dr. Florian Uhle as Medical Director

Diagnostic company SphingoTec is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Florian Uhle as the company's new Medical Director. Dr. Uhle is a subject matter expert in translating innovations into routine clinical practice with a broad experience in both clinical and corporate settings.
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15. November 2022

360Dx: Boditech Med Secures License for SphingoTec Kidney Function Biomarker

Boditech Med will develop and make point-of-care tests for acute kidney injury using a kidney function biomarker licensed from SphingoTec.
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23. September 2022

Technology Networks: "Glomerular Filtration Rate Is the True Gold Standard of Kidney Function"

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a life-threatening disease that has no obvious symptoms in the early stages. Early identification of patients with AKI is one of the most critical unmet needs of physicians in their daily clinical practice. The focus of this article is on functional kidney biomarkers since it is not possible for damage markers to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
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18. August 2022

Institut der Gesundheit: "Internationale medizinische Experten wollen Biomarker-basierte Ansätze nutzen, um die Präzisionsmedizin voranzubringen"

International medical leaders discussed the latest developments in diagnostic and therapeutic innovations for advancing precision medicine in critically ill patients.
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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.

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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31.03.2022

Point-of-care Diagnostics in the Emergency Department: Better Patient Management

Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Di Somma, MD PhD; University La Sapienza Rome

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Pipetting a microtiter plate assay