Expertise

National newborn screening programme for all children born in Luxembourg (NBSIEM), including prevention, diagnosis and follow-up in pharmacology, medical toxicology, allergology, specialised biochemistry of inborn errors of metabolism, and endocrinology.

Diagnostic des maladies génétiques, activités de génétique clinique, analyses moléculaires et génétiques des cancers.

Diagnosis of cancers, precancerous lesions, and inflammatory diseases through the analysis of cells and tissues using cytological, histological, and molecular techniques.

Forensic autopsies, toxicological analyses of human biological samples (blood, urine, hair, etc.), drug analyses, detection of fire accelerants, drug testing, wastewater analysis, genetic identification and paternity testing, as well as clinical forensic examinations.

Diagnostic services in bacteriology, including mycology, virology, and pathogen sequencing, with an increasing focus on a syndromic approach and epidemiological surveillance.

Identification of chemical substances and microbiological agents in indoor environments (homes and workplaces), including sampling and health risk assessment. Epidemiological investigations, human biomonitoring and environmental exposure assessment in public health, as well as the diagnosis of environmentally related diseases within the National Environmental Medicine Service of CHEM.