Dear all,

IFCC, in collaboration with the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) and other supporters, is pleased to present the "Increasing Clinical Effectiveness Award 2016/17".

ICE Award is open to any laboratory medicine specialist. He/she is invited to submit an abstract that describes testing-related interventions and the quantifiable positive impact for patients that they produced. The winners of the ICE Award in 2016/17 will be invited to present their work as part of an IFCC symposium at the IFCC – EFLM EuroMedLab congress in Athens on Tuesday 13 June 2017.

Deadline to present an abstract is 30 September 2016.

All further information is contained in the attached letter.

Dear members,

EFLM is pleased to announce the Walter Guder Preanalytical Award for 2016!

This award, presented by EFLM and sponsored by BD, is for the best preanalytical original paper published between 1 January 2015 and 30 April 2016. The applicants should be members of the EFLM member societies and in the age of <40 years.

For all details about the award please take a look here.
Your applications should be submitted to EFLM office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by April 30, 2016.
We look forward to receive your proposals!

Ana-Maria Simundic
EFLM Executive Board Secretary
Chair EFLM WG "Preanalytical Phase"

The EFLM-HyTest Cardiac Marker Award is granted to a young scientist for remarkable scientific work in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

The applicant must fulfill the following criteria: age under 40 years; member of an EFLM member country; study accepted for peer-reviewed publication by the submission deadline in which the nominee must be first author.

The EFLM-HyTest Cardiac Marker Award is awarded biannually. This year, the award will be presented at the 22nd IFCC-EFLM European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EuroMedLab 2017) to be held in Athens (GR) from 11 to 15 June 2017.

The selected scientist will receive an award of € 5000 and the costs for attending the EuroMedLab Congress (economy class travel, reasonable accommodation and the congress registration fee).

More details can be found here.

Committee for information and public relations

Dear members,

The IFCC eAcademy is an open educational resource containing distance-learning materials created and/or reviewed by IFCC experts for the continuous professional training development of members of IFCC member organizations. Up to now, these educational materials are composed of about 45 videos available only in English. To facilitate access to this knowledge to a greater number of professionals, IFCC has initiated a project of collaborative translation of these videos to Spanish which means that a large number of people work simultaneously in the translation of videos from English to Spanish.

If you speak English and Spanish (whatever it is your mother or second language), we invite you to contribute to this IFCC project of collaborative translation as a collaborator or reviewer. Those who only speaks English can also help participating in this project by making the video transcript.

Please find the details about this project here.

Committee for information and public relations