Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

 LSMU MA MF Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine was established on 1 July 2015.

The aim of the department is to ensure university-level academic, scientific and clinical activities and their progress.

The functions of the department – to organise studies, scientific research and healthcare work; to prepare study plans for speciality and specialisation programmes, programmes of taught subjects; to organise the improvement and retraining of specialists; to effectively use hardware and equipment necessary for science, studies and healthcare; to prepare scientific articles, textbooks, teaching books and other scientific and study tools and others.

Academic activities – The department’s lecturers participate in the study programmes listed below and guide and advise students on issues of medical genetics, while preparing Bachelor’s and Master’s theses:

  • Faculty of Medicine, Medicine, Genetics Residency;
  • Faculty of Medicine, Medical and Veterinary Genetics 3rd year, taught subject – Medical Genetics I;
  • Faculty of Medicine, Medicine, 5th year – Children’s Diseases module, taught subject – Clinical Genetics;
  • Faculty of Medicine, Medical and Veterinary Genetics, Bachelor theses;
  • Faculty of Medicine, Medicine, Master’s theses (Lithuanian and international students);
  • Faculty of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine Biology, Master’s theses.

Clinical activity – in the Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, geneticists provide genetic services: they advise children and adults on all genetic diseases. A wide range of genetic tests are performed in the laboratory of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine : cytogenetic, molecular cytogenetic, molecular genetic from blood, plasma, tissues, amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, umbilical cord blood, urine, etc., using advanced equipment, selecting the most accurate genetic testing methods and ensuring research quality.

LSMU MA MF Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
+370 37 326741 gmmklinika@kaunoklinikos.lt
Eivenių St. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas
Prof. Rasa Ugenskienė
Head of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
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