Interview met Marjan Schotman, die na een conlict is toegelaten tot de studie medicijnen

A publication by H.J. Hamburger on kidney function and metabolism in 1900 marked the first use of clinical biochemistry at the Utrecht Veterinary School. From 1907 onward the clinician J.J. Wester increasingly used clinical biochemistry for diagnostic purposes. However, initially most of the clinical biochemistry was not performed in the clinics but in the Laboratory of Medical Veterinary Chemistry by L. Seekles and his predecessor B. Sjollema. The appointment of A.J.H. Schotman in 1958 as clinical biochemist at the Large Animal Clinic and of the biochemist C.J.G. van der Horst in 1961 at the Small Animal Clinic were strong stimulants for the development of clinical biochemistry in the clinics. Improved equipment, mechanization, and automation enabled clinical biochemistry to grow considerably during the second half of the previous century. In 2003, efficiency and costs dictated the merger of the separate clinical laboratories into the University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UVDL), concentrating the clinical laboratories in a newly built facility, the Jeanette Donker-Voet Building.