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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.

The ESLHO symposium Poster Prize is rewarded every year at the ESLHO Symposium. At this 13th ESLHO Symposium, which took place in Lisbon Portugal, all poster presenters were asked to pitch their work in a short Blitz presentation to the public. This resulted in a powerful, energizing session in which the - mostly young - scientists did an excellent job in getting attention for their poster. During lunch, the public could visit the posters for more in-depth explanation and discussion. After that the visitors were asked to rate the posters by rewarding their top-three. The prize for Best Poster was for Wiebke Wessels from Kiel with her poster on Preleukemic clonal haematopoiesis in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Alice Darbyshire from Birmingham and Javier Morán-Plata from Salamanca came in second and third, respectively.

This months’ ISAC (International Society for Advancement of Cytometry) SRL Newsletter features an article about the EuroFlow consortium. In an interview with Prof. Jacques van Dongen and Prof. Alberto Orfao, the two chairs of EuroFlow speak about the start and the aims of the consortium, the reasoning behind the choices which have been made for the well-known EuroFlow-tubes, the achievements over the years and the plans for the future. Of course they also speak about the importance of the standardization in flow-cytometric diagnostics and provide advice on how to make a success of international collaboration.