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Volume 20, Issue 5 , Pages 694-698 , May 2010

Urine neopterin concentrations as a marker for successful blastocyst implantation after assisted reproductive technologies

V. Melichar
- Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
E. Soelder
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
K. Schroecksnadel
- Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
C. Murr
- Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
P. Arck
- Reproductive Immunology Research Group, Department of Internal Medicine, Biomedical Research Center, Campus Virchow, Charité, Berlin, Germany
L. Wildt
- Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Sterility, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
D. Fuchs
- Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Corresponding author.

Received 16 March 2009 ,Revised 7 July 2009 ,Accepted 21 December 2009.

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Dietmar Fuchs graduated in chemistry in 1980 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. After employment at the Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, he became Reader in Medical Chemistry (1986), and Associate Professor and co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for AIDS-Research at the Medical Faculty. He was Honorary Visiting Fellow (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow (University of Birmingham) from 1994–1998. His scientific interests lie in the fields of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Immunology focusing on the metabolism of neopterin and tryptophan. He has published 730 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and received several national and international awards.