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Standardisation of Troponin I (WG-TNI)
Membership
| Name | Position | Country | Term | Time in Office |
| R. Christenson | Chair | US | 2nd | 2020 01 - 2022 12 |
| D. Armbruster | Member | US | ||
| J. Barth | Member | UK | ||
| A. Katrukha | Member | FI | ||
| J. Noble | Member | UK | ||
| M. Panteghini | Member | IT | ||
| A. Saenger | Member | US | ||
| H. Schimmel | Member | BE | ||
| L. Wang | Member | US |
Terms of Reference
- Development of a candidate secondary reference measurement procedure and candidate secondary reference material for cardiac troponin I (cTnI)
- Testing for cTnI standardization and clinical validation by comparison with validated commercial assays in a round robin study
Current Projects
- Preparation of a secondary reference material for cTnI consisting of three cTnIpositive serum pools (Phase 2)
- Validation of cTnI standardization through a round robin after a value transfer using the secondary reference material as common calibrator (Phase 3)
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by National Societies
| Name | Full and Affiliate Member Societies |
| Guillaume Lefevre | Société Française de Biologie Clinique (SFBC) |
| Alexander Haliassos | Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry - Clinical Biochemistry (GSCC-CB) |
| Junichi Ishii | Japan Society of Clinical Chemistry (JSCC) |
| Joseph Ahaneku | Association of Clinical Chemists Nigeria (ACCN) |
| Lakminda Thilakarathna | Association for Clinical Biochemistry, Sri Lanka |
| Gozde Ceylan | Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS) |
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by Corporate Members
| Name | Corporate Members |
| Gillian Murtagh | ABBOTT Diagnostics |
| Paul Wynveen | BECKMAN COULTER |
| Geert Jannes | FUJIREBIO Europe |
| Ralph Thomae | MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL EUROPE |
| Maria Patru | ORTHO CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS |
| Birgitte Kaae | RADIOMETER |
| Michael Townsend | RANDOX Laboratories Ltd. |
| Kareen Blechschmidt | ROCHE Diagnostics GmbH |
| Robert Payne | SIEMENS |
Working Group Chair's contact
Robert H. CHRISTENSON, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB
Professor of Pathology
Professor of Medical and Research Technology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Medical Director, Core Laboratories
Medical Director, Point of Care Services
University of Maryland Medical Center
22 South Greene Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
USA
Phone: 410-328-8672
Fax: 410-328-5880
Email: rchristenson@umm.edu