Clinical Laboratory

Patient- Centered, Quality-Assured  

Service-Based, and Science-Directed.

Overview

Clinical Laboratory of Peking University People’s Hospital (PKUPH) is a comprehensive medical laboratory with the functions of clinical examination, education and scientific research, and renders a service of clinical  examination for the whole hospital. Clinical Laboratory provides data for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and prediction of clinical diseases, accurately and efficiently. There are 94 members in the team, including 4 professors, 6 associate professors, and 22 members who have achieved doctor degreemaster degree.    

Patient Care

Clinical Laboratory provides more than 300 items of examination, and examines more than 2.0 million specimens each year. In 2008, Clinical Laboratory of PKUPH adopted the ISO15189 medical laboratory accreditation, among the best medical labs in China. In 2010, Clinical Laboratory got the national key clinical specialty construction project. In 2015, Clinical Laboratory of PKUPH passed the review of College of American Pathologists(CAP), and has been accredited by CAP.

There are five professional divisions in the lab. Besides conventional examination items, each group develops featured items for clinic. Among the items, some are outstanding in China nowadays, including: cultivation, identification and antibiotic sensitivity analysis of different kinds of anaerobe and microaerophilic bacterium, examination of bleeding and thrombotic diseases, and genetic examination related to individualized treatment. Microorganism Group is awarded as national training center for monitoring bacterial resistance and “Sprout Plan” practice center by the Chinese government.

Clinical Hematology and Body Fluid Division

Routine tests: CBC, coagulation analysis, urinary sediment and dry chemical analysis, routine analysis of humor and feces, ESR, DIC analysis.

Featured tests: analysis of coagulation factors, Protein S, Protein C, SFHB,  ADAMST-13.

Clinical Biochemistry Division

Routine tests: analysis of liver and renal function, blood-lipoids and diabetes; microelements determination;　electrolyte analysis, screening of Infection markers

Featured tests: glycated albumin, growth hormone

and homocysteine

Clinical Immunology Division

Routine tests: tumor marker and autoantibody detection, allergen and specific protein determination.

Featured tests: IgG subtype analysis, free light chain, IL-6 and YKL-40 detection.

Clinical Microbiology Division

Routine tests: cultivation, identification and antibiotic sensitivity analysis of different kinds of bacteria, fungus and mycobacterium.

Featured tests: T-SPOT.TB, G test, identification and antibiotic sensitivity analysis of anaerobe and Microaerophilic bacterium.

Clinical Molecular Biology Division

Routine tests: different kinds of genetic examination.

Featured tests: mutation analysis of tumor-related genes, e.g. EGFR, K-ras and B-Raf; drug metabolic enzyme-related gene analysis, e.g. CYP2C19、ALDH2; genetic examination of hereditary hearing loss, and detection of some pathogenic microorganism.

Education

Talent cultivation

Graduate training

•  Training center of graduate students majoring Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics and postdoctoral fellow.  
•  There are two masters supervisors and one doctoral supervisor in the lab.

Undergraduate teaching

• Undertaking the course of laboratory diagnosis for students majoring Clinical Medicine (eight-year program) and Laboratory Medicine of Peking University.
• The Dean office of the Laboratory Medicine department, Peking University; and undertaking the daily work of the department.

Intern training           

• Supply practical training for students from many medical schools in China.

Continuing education

• Develop courses for national and provincial continuing education many times, and hundreds of persons attended every time.
• Advanced students from hospitals of different grades are welcome to study in the lab.

Training Base Construction

• The clinical Laboratory is one of the standardized training bases for laboratory physician in Beijing.
• Microorganism Group is awarded as national training center for Monitoring Bacterial Resistance and “Sprout Plan” practice center by the Chinese government.

Textbook compilation

• Contribute to several textbook compiling projects of the Chinese Government.
• Be rewarded for teaching work by Peking University and the government.

Research

The Clinical Laboratory has won many scientific research funds supported by hospital, university, ministry of health, ministry of education, ministry of science and technology, national natural science foundation of China, Beijing Natural science foundation, etc.; and the research funds has been about 2 million dollars in 2015.

Projects

•  National multi-center antibiotics monitoring network;
•  Antimicrobial resistance mechanism;
• The role of Lp(α) in atherosclerosis;
•  Cancer biology and cancer biomarker;
•  Role of E protein and Id in human immunity;
• Regulatory role of Human cytomegalovirus miRa-US25-1.

Funding

• National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project (Prof. Wang Hui);
• Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program;
• National Natural Science Foundation of China ;
• Beijing Natural Science Foundation ;
• Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University.

Output

Over 100 papers have been published in the major medical magazines in recent 5 years, including more than 30 SCI papers.