David Kasper Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Vienna Educational background: - PhD in Biochemistry - PhD in Medical Science Since 2012, head of the Pediatric Clinical Laboratory of the General Hospital in Vienna Head of the Austrian Newborn Screening Program and Laboratory of Inherited Metabolic Disorders. Member of several societies including the EU Network of Experts on Newborn Screening Research interests and experience - Development and evaluation of laboratory diagnostics in infectious diseases, hematology, oncology and inborn errors of metabolism - Novel technologies for high-throughput screening of small molecules in dried blood spots