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SeraCare to Develop NGS Standards for Tumor Mutational Burden Monitoring

This article was originally published on http://www.clpmag.com/2019/04/seracare-develop-ngs-standards-tumor-mutational-burden-monitoring/ Under its agreement with IQN Path, SeraCare will develop, manufacture, and supply a range of highly characterized cell line genomic DNA and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded standards with confirmed low, mid, and high levels of mutational burden within their exome regions. Beginning in June 2019, the materials will be sent read more…

IQN Path Selects SeraCare Life Sciences for First-Ever Tumor Mutational Burden External Quality Assessment Program

International expert group focused on improving quality of clinical biomarker testing launching pilot TMB proficiency program in Spring 2019     MILFORD, Mass., WED. March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announced today their successful selection as a technology partner read more…

New article in the journal BMC Cancer

IQN Path has an article from the liquid biopsy working group published in the journal BMC Cancer entitled: “International pilot external quality assessment scheme for analysis and reporting of circulating tumour DNA” The full article can be found here at this link: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-018-4694-x

New IQN Path Board Announced

At the recent Annual General Meeting of IQN Path held in Naples, IQN Path was delighted to introduce its new board. The board is composed as follows; Nicola Normanno (Italy) – President, Emina Torlakovic (Canada) – Treasurer, Dina Tiniakos (ESP – Greece), Etienne Rouleau (France), Jingxin Qiu (USA)

IQN Path Members Area

One of the benefits of being a member of IQN Path is that all member organisations have access to our secure member’s area on the IQN Path website. In this area we post all manner of papers including Governance documents and the Annual IQN Path report. Meeting summaries and agendas, both general meetings but also read more…

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…