Successful meeting of the In-Situ Methods Working Group
On Sunday 25th September, IQN Path held another successful working group meeting of the In-Situ Methods Working Group. Prof Mogens Vyberg and Dr Emina Torlakovic gave excellent presentations on the challenges and importance of quality in immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing with presentations on positive and negative controls for IHC and an overview of the key concepts read more…
New WHO Publication
In September last year IQN Path was invited to Geneva to the World Health Organization to represent the viewpoint of pathology in an international discussion on external quality assessment. This meeting resulted in a new publication from the WHO entitled ‘WHO manual for organising a national external quality assessment program for health laboratories and other read more…
IQN Path ASBL at the Naples 2016 Congress
The newly formed IQN Path ASBL joined the Naples 2016 Congress stakeholders involved in promoting accurate testing for anti-cancer drug selection. The conference was organised by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) with the European Society of Pathology (ESP) and the Italian Association of Surgical Pathology (SIAPEC-IAP), and with the endorsement of the European read more…
IQN Path teams up with LMP pathologist to standardize immunohistochemistry terminology
IQN Path, represented by the executive director, Dr Jacqueline Hall, has been in collaboration with Dr. Emina Torlakovic Laboratory Medicine Program (LMP) and Canadian Immunohistochemsitry Quality Control (CIQC) an External Quality Assessment (EQA) provider to standardize a terminology and framework for quality in immunohistochemistry (IHC). Dr. Emina Torlakovic, hematopathologist, immunohistochemistry lab director at LMP and read more…
IQN Path invited to participate in a World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Group meeting, September 21-22nd 2015
EQA is a important part of a wider framework for quality assurance of diagnostic testing. In many countries it is now of interest to establish EQA as national schemes and in those countries with well established EQA, to maintain and promote good practise in EQA. In order to assist in the establishment of national schemes read more…
Satellite Workshop to the ECP 2015 – Belgrade, 7th September, 2015
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a widely used and well established method, however, there are many considerations to take into account to achieve quality IHC testing. IQN Path is running a multi-stakeholder workshop of key opinion leaders to have an open discussion on what can be done collectively to improve quality in this area and how to read more…
4th QA meeting, Naples, Italy
Speakers from academia, industries, pharma, diagnostic companies, and national quality assurance organizers make presentations and exchange ideas and updates on the recent developments in quality assurance in Europe. The molecular working group of IQN Path meet at the annual Naples Meeting. Thanks to the participants and sponsors for a successful 4th meeting on External Quality read more…