Expert labs
To provide participants of the ESLHO EQA Program with high quality EQA schemes that are based on relevant clinical cases/comparisons, ESLHO collaborates with expert laboratories. These are usually diagnostic laboratories at academic hospitals that perform relevant diagnostic analyses on a routine basis. For certain tasks, the involvement of expert laboratories is invaluable to the EQA schemes, e.g. because of their high level of expertise and access to samples/cases.
Organized by the schemes of the EuroClonality, EuroFlow, and EuroMRD consortia, a list of involved expert laboratories and their tasks is provided below.
EuroClonality
Portuguese Institute of Oncology
Hemato-Oncology Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal
- Dr. Paula Gameiro
Schemes
Tasks
- EuroClonality EQA Committee lead
- Paper cases team lead: Case selection, pretesting
- Report
AZ Delta Hospital
Lab of Molecular Diagnostics, Roeselare, Belgium
- Dr. Elke Boone
Schemes
Tasks
- Paper cases team: Case selection, pretesting
- Post-testing wet case samples
- Report
Uppsala University Hospital
Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
- Dr. Millaray Marincevic Zuniga
Schemes
Tasks
- Wet cases team lead: Case selection, pretesting
Radboud University Medical Centre
Department of Pathology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Dr. Patricia Groenen
Schemes
Tasks
- Paper cases team: Case selection, pretesting
Queen’s University
Precision Medicine Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Dr. Liz Hodges
Schemes
Tasks
- Paper cases team: Case selection, pretesting
Salamanca University Hospital
Dept. of Hematology, Salamanca, Spain
- Dr. María Eugenia Sarasquete
Schemes
Tasks
- Wet cases team: Case selection, pretesting
NHS Grampian
Laboratory Genetics and Molecular Pathology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Dr. Benedict Milner
Schemes
Tasks
- Wet cases team: Case selection, pretesting
University Hospital Southampton
Wessex Genomics Laboratory Services, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Nicola Meakin
Schemes
Tasks
- Wet cases team: Case selection, pretesting
EuroFlow
Charles University
Childhood Leukaemia Investigation Prague (CLIP), Prague, Czech Republic
- Prof. Dr. Tomáš Kalina
- Dr. Naděžda Brdičková
- Dr. Michaela Reiterová
Schemes
Tasks
- LST scheme lead
- BCP-ALL MRD scheme lead
- Case selection and testing
- Reference lab
- Data analysis
- Reporting
University of Ghent
Laboratory of Clinical Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Prof. Dr. Carolien Bonroy
- Dr. Mattias Hofmans
- Malicorne Buysse
- Jana De Wolf
- Pauline Breughe
Schemes
Tasks
- PIDOT scheme lead
- Case selection and testing
- Reference lab
- Reporting
University of Salamanca
Cancer Research Center, Salamanca, Spain
- Dr. Juan Flores-Montero
- Prof. Dr. Martín Pérez
Schemes
Tasks
- MM MRD scheme lead
- Case selection and testing
- Reference lab
- Reporting
EuroMRD
UKSH
Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Kiel, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Monika Brüggemann
- Dr. Heiko Trautmann
- Dr. Jan Kässens
- Dr. Britta Kehden
- Dr. Julia Alten
Schemes
Tasks
- ALL scheme lead
- General organization
- Data analysis
- Reporting
University of Turin
Molecular Biology Lab, Turin, Italy
- Dr. Daniela Drandi
Schemes
Tasks
- NHL scheme lead
- dPCR pilot
University of Milano-Bicocca
Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Monza, Italy
- Giovanni Cazzaniga
Schemes
Tasks
- ALL KMT2A scheme lead
Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
Hämatologisches und Onkologisches Speziallabor, Frankfurt, Germany
- Dr. Heike Pfeifer
Schemes
Tasks
- Ph+ALL scheme lead
- Case selection
- Production of cells
- Reference lab
- Data analysis and reporting
Charles University
Childhood Leukaemia Investigation Prague (CLIP), Prague, Czech Republic
- Dr. Eva Froňková
Schemes
Tasks
- NGS ALL scheme lead
- Case selection
- Reference lab
- Reporting