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With great thanks to Radboud UMC, the EuroClonality Educational Workshop 2025, titled “Clonality Assessment in Pathology”, was once again a great success!

For ESLHO, education is a crucial aspect of external quality assessment (EQA) schemes, as it is the basis for continuous improvement of diagnostic testing. All schemes that we run in our networks have an annual educational meeting in which the EQA results are presented to and discussed with participants. This is clearly valued: from 57 labs that joined the EuroClonality IG/TR Clonality EQA scheme 2024, more than 100 persons joined the virtual sessions that we organized in the past 2 weeks. Thanks everyone for your interest, and see you again during the EQA scheme 2025!

The registration for the “2025 External Quality Assessment Scheme for IG/TR Clonality Testing in Suspected Lymphoproliferations/Lymphoma” is now open. This EQA scheme is organized by the EuroClonality Consortium in collaboration with the Biomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit of the University of Leuven led by Prof. Dr. Els Dequeker.

This year, participants in the IG scheme will receive 3 DNA samples and 2 paper-based cases. For the TR scheme, labs will receive 2 DNA samples and 3 paper-based cases.
Just like last year, participants have the option to submit results from GeneScan/heteroduplex or NGS methods for the DNA samples. Analysis of the paper cases based on GeneScan patterns will still be mandatory and will be scored as usual.

Participation fee
The fee for participation in either the IG scheme or TR scheme is € 460. This fee covers the preparation and sending of samples, an evaluation report, as well as the administrative organization of the schemes.

Detailed information on the organization of the EQA scheme, registration and evaluation of results can be found on the EQA website: www.eqascheme.org.

We are excited to announce the 3rd German EuroFlow Educational Workshop, taking place on March 28-29, 2025, in the beautiful city of Rostock, Germany!

Join us for the 22nd EuroClonality Workshop: “Clonality Assessment in Pathology” taking place March 5–7, 2025, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.