A reminder to all IQN Path members, please make a note in your agendas to register for the IQN Path Annual General Meeting being held on Friday 11th of May 2018. If you have key topics you would like to add to the business meeting regarding future directions and strategies or new project ideas, please read more…
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Calling All EQA Members!
Elections for Two Seats on the IQN Path Board The Founding Board of IQN Path has now fulfilled its first term of office and we are now looking for expressions of interest from within the EQA scheme membership to become an IQN Path Executive Board Member for the available seats. In order to provide continuity read more…
Article published in The Pathologist
IQN Path, in collaboration with Ventana Medical Systems, have published an article in The Pathologist entitled ‘A Quality Undertaking – Connecting EQA and industry to ensure quality diagnostic testing’. This short article explores the difficulties in standardisation for accuracy and precision in the EQA process and ways that IQN Path is working in collaboration with read more…
IQN Path PD-L1 digital educational resource for EQA
IQN Path is working on setting up a new project to support quality of PDL1 testing. The goal of the project, is to establish a high quality education resource for self-assessment of pathologists on PD-L1 scoring. Digital slides stained with the four different FDA approved tests (from both Agilent and Roche) will be available to view. The digital platform read more…
The third IQN Path In-situ Methods working group meeting
On Friday 1st September, prior to the European Congress of Pathology meeting, IQN Path held its 3rd In-situ Methods working group face to face meeting. Prof Mogens Vyberg (NordiQC) and John Garratt (CIQC) chaired the session. The agenda opened with a short summary on the progress of IQN Path’s activities and discussions of the Working Group read more…
IQN Path’s Exhibition booth, ECP 2017 Amsterdam
This year IQN Path ASBL had it’s first exhibition booth at the 29th European Congress of Pathology, 2-5th September, 2017 https://www.esp-congress.org. As well as meeting with many IQN Path members, we also had the opportunity to speak with new potential members and also with laboratories looking to join EQA schemes. Many different projects and next read more…
New Publication: Review of the implementation of plasma ctDNA testing on behalf of IQN Path ASBL: a perspective from an EQA providers’ survey
IQN Path is pleased to announce the first publication on Liquid Biopsy clinical implementation and quality assessment. Four EQA providers came together under the umbrella of IQN Path ASBL to run a pilot External Quality Assessment scheme for circulating free DNA. This publication “Review of the implementation of plasma ctDNA testing on behalf of IQN Path read more…
Quality in Pathology – IQN Path ASBL initiates a journal special issue
During the IQN Path Annual General Meeting in 2017, an idea was born to identify a channel for publications relating to quality issues in pathology, that would also provide a vehicle to collate papers and interesting articles related to External Quality Assessment in Pathology, amongst other topics that touch on quality. IQN Path ASBL reached read more…
IQN Path cfDNA workshop: Florence 23rd June 2017
On the 23rd of June IQN Path organised the first IQN Path workshop on circulating free DNA testing. This meeting was held in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy. The meeting had over 100 registrants and drew attendees from 23 different countries in total demonstrating the importance and interest in the topic of quality for read more…