‘From Genes to Grafts: Where Innovation meets Medicine’
Meet the VH Bio Transplant Team at the 39th EFI/BSHI Conference 2026 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 21st – 24th April 2026.
Find us at stand 25 for an enlightening chat and some fabulous merch (have you heard about Protocol for Calm?!) or get in touch if you’d like to arrange a meeting during the conference.
One Lambda Events at EFI/BSHI 2026
Join us at special events hosted by One Lambda | A ThermoFisher Scientific Brand, including their pre-EFI workshop and industry symposium:
One Lambda Pre-EFI Workshop
Catch One Lambda’s pre-conference workshop which will focus on today’s complex antibody and molecular testing challenges. Explore strategies to help resolve difficult antibody profiles, integrate molecular data for confident interpretation, and consider emerging approaches to post-transplant monitoring while enhancing laboratory efficiency and standardization.
Topics that will be discussed at the workshop include: One Lambda™ HybriType™, LABScreen™ Single Antigen ExPlex, CXCL10, HLA Fusion™ software, and the HLA PRO automated pipetting system.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 | 13:30 – 16:30
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Floor 0 – MOORFOOT Room
Key products to discover in the pre-EFI workshop include:
Antibody/Software
Beyond the Bead: Advancing Complex HLA Antibody Analysis with Innovative Tools
Richard Battle, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRcPath | Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and James Jones, MSc, BSHIdip Sr. Technical Training Specialist, Antibody | Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Discover how to further define complex LABScreen Single Antigen HLA antibody profiles
• Learn how these products together with advanced HLA Fusion modules connect molecular typing with antibody data to support confident interpretation of challenging cases
CXCL10: A Potential Biomarker Assay for Post-Transplant Monitoring
CXCL10 Biomarkers and the Evolving Role of Histocompatibility Laboratories
Allison Gasiewski, Product Manager, Antibody Screening | Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Exploring CXCL10 biomarker associations
• Expanding laboratory roles beyond antibody detection
• Available assay formats and platform options
One Lambda™ HybriType™
Evaluation of the One Lambda HybriType HLA Assay in a National Reference Laboratory
Ali Hajeer, FRCPath, D(ABHI) | King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs
• Learn how HybriType may enable HSCT registry work to be brought in-house in the future
• Explore a hybrid capture enrichment workflow for high-volume HLA typing
One Lambda™ HLA PRO
HLA PRO: Transforming Laboratory Workflows
Peter Brescia, Sr. Technical Manager | Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Instrument overview, key features and capabilities
• Efficiency and time savings gains
• Practical implementation guide, from inquiry to go-live
• Development Roadmap
Industry Symposium
Transformative tools in immunogenetics: expanded DQ Single Antigen panel and Hybrid Capture NGS
Moderator:
Dr. Oliva Shaw, PhD, FRCPath | Guy’s Hospital and Synnovis
Presentations:
‘The potential contribution of an expanded ExPlex panel to the interpretation of anti-HLA antibodies’
Jean Luc Taupin, PharmD, PhD | Saint-Louis Hospital and Diderot University
‘Comparison of One Lambda HybriType HLA to EFI 8.1 and ISO 15189 Standards’
Alice Scarpa, Sr. Biologist | Ospedale di Piacenza:
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 12:00 – 13:00
Third Floor – Sidlaw Auditorium
