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We are looking back on a wonderful ESLHO week in Lisbon, Portugal. All three ESLHO consortia EuroFlow, EuroClonality and EuroMRD had their general meetings. They were all very productive and there was also time to meet sociable during dinners which is so important to keep our cooperative work at the highest level. Highlight wasthe 13th ESLHO Symposium on Thursday. The historical Convento de Beato formed an almost magical background to host the symposium titled Muli-omics approaches for diagnosis and monitoring of hematological malignancies. The excellent invited speakers, the abstract-based selected speakers and the blitz- and poster presentations made it into a varied and scientifically highly interesting gathering. This open symposium was made possible by sponsors, who presented themselves in the well-visited sponsor area.

ESLHO is looking for a new colleague for the position of Technician/Quality Officer, who will support the organization of our quality assessment programs and the achievement and maintenance of ISO 17043 accreditation.

Education and dissemination of knowledge are important aims of the ESLHO consortia EuroClonality, EuroFlow and EuroMRD. Every year, all participants come together at the ESLHO Symposium where they present the results of their cooperative work.

On behalf of the EuroMRD Consortium, Vincent van der Velden and Michaela Kotrova have achieved to produce two new publications. The benchmark manuscripts ‘Analysis of measurable residual disease by IG/TR gene rearrangements: QA and updated EuroMRD guidelines’ and ‘The gray area of RQ-PCR-based measurable residual disease: subdividing the positive, below quantitative range (PBQR) category’ have recently been published in Leukemia.