Current News

04 Jul 2008 - CEQA celebrates its 100th registration

Cytogenetic European Quality Assessment reaches an important milestone in its road to improving and harmonizing Cytogenetics EQA in Europe. More...

05 Jun 2008 - European Advanced Postgraduate Course in Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics

The course in Montpellier/Nîmes - France is designed to provide medical graduates, pharmacists, researchers, graduate students and health professionals with advanced training in constitutional, haematological, and oncological cytogenetics. More...

29 May 2008 - Core competences in genetics for health professionals in Europe

Final version is available now. Final feedback and comments should be sent to the chair of the ESHG Education Committee. More...

27 May 2008 - Job opportunity for director of molecular diagnostic lab (Lausanne) More...

26 May 2008 - Clinical utility gene cards

Unit 3 of EUROGENTEST has developed "points to consider" regarding clinical indications for genetic testing and is inviting for commentaries from the scientific community. More...

UPCOMING EVENT: 11 Jul 2008 - Congress of Hungarian society of human genetics More...

UPCOMING EVENT: 15 Jul 2008 - Screening and Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases and Cogenital Defects More...

04 Jul 2008 - BRCA screening by HRM on the LightCyclerLightCycler

Presentation from Tom Janssens (Unit 5) online now More...

30 May 2008 - Patenting and licensing in genetic testing: ethical, legal and social issues

Sirpa Soini, Ségolène Aymé and Gert Matthijs the members of the Public and Professional Policy Committee (PPPC) and Patenting and Licensing Committee (PLC), on behalf of the ESHG The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) wants to involve the genetics community in the analysis of, and the discussions on, the practical, political, societal, ethical and economical aspects of patenting and licensing of genes, sequences and genetic tests. More...

27 May 2008 - Release of second version of report on the accreditation workshops

New release including a new chapter on 'managing the human side of change'. More...

27 May 2008 - Instrument for quality self-assessment in provision of genetic counselling

This instrument is created for internal assessment of the quality of genetic counselling within a genetic counselling clinic. The aim is to support internal education, improve the quality and to start the process of documenting issues related to quality development in genetic counselling clinics. More...

UPCOMING EVENT: 06 Jul 2008 - Supporting policy development in genomics

Where Health Technology Assessment, Health Services Research, Public Health and ELSi research meet More...

UPCOMING EVENT: 25 Jul 2008 - Predicting Our Future: Genetic Testing in Children and Their Families More...