The Department of Clinical Biochemistry, both at the Ein Karem and Mount Scopus hospitals, performs within the framework of the Central Laboratory and is committed to medical laboratory service, research and education.

The department strives to be a national leader in its field, and is in a special position of being both a medical center laboratory and a reference laboratory that provides extensive laboratory services in the two Hadassah hospitals in the various disciplines of Clinical Biochemistry.

The major areas of research in the department focus on:

§         Plasminogen activation (

§         Clinical laboratory management (Prof. Michael Mayer)

§         Specific issued in clinical laboratory diagnostics (Prof. Higazi and Prof. Mayer).

The senior academic staff of the department is involved in teaching and in various educational activities at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Medicine.