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Zoltan Lukacs, PhD, is the laboratory head of the Newborn Screening and Metabolic Laboratory of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry/Dept. of Pediatrics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. After receiving a prize from the German Chemical Industrial Society for outstanding results on his high school exam, Dr. Lukacs received a grant from the Bavarian Institution for the Gifted, which he used to study food chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg from 1991 to 1995. His PhD thesis, entitled Microbial Asymmetric Synthesis: Reduction of Hydroperoxides and Hydroxylation of Unfunctionalized Hydrocarbons, won a faculty prize in 2000. He is a member of several professional societies, including the International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS) and the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM). Dr. Lukacs is the 2007 winner of the Dussault Award of the International Society for Neonatal Screening, a distinction for young investigators.
Contact: lukacs@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Research Group
Paulina Nieves Cobos (Ph.D. student)
Angelika Keil (technician)
Recent Publications
Lukacs, Z.; Hartung, R.; Beck, M.; Keil, A.; Mengel, E.
Direct comparison of enzyme measurements from dried blood and leukocytes from male and female Fabry disease patients
J Inherit Metab Dis, 2007, 30, 614 (+ Suppl. Material Online)
Schumacher, U.; Lukacs, Z.; Kaltschmidt, C.; Freudlsperger, C.; Schulz, D.; Kompisch, K.; Müller, R.; Rudolph, T.; Santer, R.; Lorke, D.W.; Ullrich, K.
High concentrations of phenylalanine stimulate peroxisome proliferator activated receptor g: Implications for the pathophysiology of phenylketonuria
Neurobiology of Disease, 2008, 32, 385-390
Lukacs Z. "Mucopolysaccharides" In Blau, N. (Ed), "Laboratory Guide to the Methods in Biochemical Genetics", Springer, Heidelberg, 2008, pp.287-324
Lukacs, Z.; Santer, R.; Kohlschütter, A.; Nieves Cobos, P.; Moncayo, F.
Cooperation between Hamburg (Germany) and Ecuador for neonatal screening and metabolic diagnosis - four years of experience
J Inherit Metab Dis 2008, 31 (Suppl 1) 152
Lukacs, Z.; Nieves Cobos, P.; Keil, A.; Santer, R.
Neonatal screening for Pompe disease - a feasibility study
J Inherit Metab Dis 2008, 31 (Suppl 1) 132
Research Interests
The main research interests of the group are:
Funding
We are grateful to the Genzyme Corp (MA, USA) and the Luminex Corp (TX, USA) for their continuing support of our research programs
Links
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neugeborenenscreening - www.screening-dgns.de
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pädiatrische Stoffwechselstörungen - www.aps-med.de
International Society for Neonatal Screening - www.isns-neoscreening.org
Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism - www.ssiem.org
