ASHI 2025
2025-10-06 - 2025-10-10
VH Bio is looking forward to the ASHI 51st Annual Meeting in Orlando this October!
Meet Mohammad Ali Rafique, Transplant Technical Sales Specialist, at the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) Annual Meeting from 6-10 October in Orlando, Florida.
Key events at ASHI
Pre-ASHI Technical Workshop
Presented by One Lambda | A Thermo Fisher Scientific Brand
Monday, 6th October | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | Grand Ballroom G

Register for One Lambda’s Pre-ASHI Technical Workshop, and get ready to explore the latest advancements and technologies in their NGS products and software offerings:

HybriType™ – From Validation to Implementation
HLA Fusion™ 4.7.1: Updated Analysis Tools
HybriType™, ALLType Rapid™, and enhancements to TypeStream Visual 3.2™
HistoSuite™ – A Software Ecosystem

Continuing education credits will be offered to attendees.

ASHI User Group Meetings by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Future-Ready Labs: Automation, Policy, and Workflow
Tuesday, 7 October | 12:40pm – 1:35pm
This exciting session will explore how automation can level up laboratory capabilities. Discover how automation can enable a more robust testing algorithm and learn how recent policy changes around virtual crossmatch are creating an impact. This session will provide valuable insights into optimising your workflows, making sure your lab stays ahead of the curve.

Scientific Advancement Symposia: Bringing the Future to Routine Testing
Thursday, 9 October | 12:40pm – 1:35pm
Join this engaging session highlighting One Lambda™ HybriType™ (Research Use Only) as both a powerful HLA assay and a forward-looking technology platform. This session will explore the evolution of HLA typing and the broader advancements enabled by a hybrid capture platform, including research into the value of nonclassical MHC loci, the potential to identify loss of heterozygosity, and the expanding role of high-resolution KIR genotyping. Together, these topics highlight the versatility of HybriType™ and its potential future implications for driving innovation.

Special Event
Thermo Fisher Scientific Pack with a Purpose
Patient Advocacy Giveback Event
Join One Lambda in giving back to the local community by packing Bravery Bags for Mended Little Hearts, a non-profit organisation that supports families of children who are hospitalised with serious heart conditions, including those facing heart transplant. Bravery Bags are filled with toiletry items, comfort items, educational resources, and handwritten notes of encouragement. The bags provide families with some of the things they may need during a hospital stay, but more importantly, they let the family know they are not alone—that there are people out there who care about them and are there to support them.
Thursday, 9 October | 1:35-2:45 pm | Windsong Pre-Function Space

Register for One Lambda’s ASHI Events

Get in touch with technical@vhbio.com if you would like to sync up at #ASHI51!

Webinar: Innovations in Post-Transplant Monitoring
2025-10-30 13:00 - 13:45 UTC
As the gap widens between patients on transplant waiting lists and available donor organs, current focus is on improving immunological matching and donor organ quality and reducing cold ischaemia time. However, with approximately 1 in 5 transplanted kidneys failing within the first 5 years, is it time to rethink post-transplantation monitoring?

Join us as we explore emerging markers, such as de novo donor-specific antibodies, donor-derived cell-free DNA, Torque teno virus, urinary exosomes and gene expression profiling; why these markers could signal allograft injury earlier than current methods allow, and why many of these innovative tests are a natural fit for the Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics laboratory.

Thursday, 30th October 2025
13:00 – 13:45 including Q&A session
Hosted by: Jess Brookes, Transplant Technical Sales Specialist

Request to attend

BTS BSHI Monothematic Meeting
2025-11-13
VH Bio is looking forward to the BTS BSHI Monothematic Meeting this November in London at the Wellcome Collection!
Look out for Jess Brookes and Ben Adams on Day One of this year’s joint meeting, who will be representing VH Bio alongside our supply partners One Lambda, Inc. (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
The theme for the BTS and BSHI Monothematic Meeting is, ‘Advancing transplantation diagnostics: cell free DNA and Omics technologies for precision medicine.’ Talks will be aimed at understanding the science and clinical application for novel diagnostics in the care of solid organ transplant patients.
Will we see you there?
Let us know if you’ll be attending!

Anthony Nolan GSSW 2025
2025-11-24
‘A Graft for All – Transforming selection strategies through HLA mismatch’
Anthony Nolan’s 2025 GSSW will be held at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Monday, 24 November 2025 from 09:30-16:30.
The workshop is dedicated to discussing unrelated donor selection for haematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) patients. We are looking forward to connecting with others in the H&I and transplant communities, hearing new insight, and sharing knowledge and experiences around finding the best donor.
Meet VH Bio’s Transplant Technical Sales Specialists Jess Brookes and Victoria Wood at this year’s GSSW!

BTS Annual Congress 2026
2026-03-03 09:00 - 2026-03-06 17:00
Save the date for the British Transplantation Society Annual Congress 2026!
Look out for Ben Adams, Jess Brookes and Victoria Wood from the VH Bio transplant team at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, North Wales from 3rd-6th March.
Find us at stand 17 for some fabulous merch and to chat about all things transplant-related, including:

One Lambda Devyser Accept cfDNA
Urinary CXCL10 monitoring
LABScreen

Let us know if you will be attending!
Arrange to meet

OptiSlides Webinar: Colour, Clarity & Confidence for Microscopy
2026-03-18
High-quality, prepared microscope slides from Luxidea, now available in six channel colours!
Is your microscope showing you the full picture?
Join VH Bio and Professor Kamala Patel, CEO of Luxidea, for this exclusive webinar on OptiSlides: Prepared slides as sophisticated as the microscopes they serve.
Created by scientists, for scientists, OptiSlides are advanced fluorescent microscopy slides for cell, tissue, or plant researchers. Specifically designed to test, validate, and showcase high-performance microscopes, OptiSlides provide brilliant, reliable results in every experiment.
Meet OptiSlides creator and CEO of Luxidea, Professor Kamala Patel, who will discuss the development of OptiSlides plant, cell and thick tissue slides, and be among the first to see the latest innovation – the new 6 Channel Near Infrared OptiSlides – a new spectrum of possibility for microscopy.
Wednesday, 18th March
16:00 – 16:30 GMT including Q&A session
Register

Read more:
Luxidea’s OptiSlides: High-Performance Fluorescent Microscopy Slides for Laboratories

About your host

Kamala D. Patel, PhD
CEO, Luxidea, Inc
Professor, University of Calgary
Dr. Kamala Patel spent 35 years in academia, working to understand the human immune system and how it misbehaves in chronic diseases. She established the Live Cell Imaging Lab at the University of Calgary and served as its Executive Director for over 20 years.
One of her core principles is to democratise science by building research platforms that are accessible to all. This led to the founding of Luxidea.
Luxidea identifies simple solutions already at the prototype stage and develops them into products to serve the research community. Their lead product is OptiSlides, prepared microscope slides that test, showcase and troubleshoot advanced microscopes.
Connect with Kamala

Webinar: Case Studies from the Epitope-Analysis Toolbox
2026-04-09
Discover how One Lambda™ LABScreen Single Antigen ExPlex and One Lambda™ MagSort can be integrated into the analysis of complex (and surprising!) patient cases, and how epitope-based analysis tools in the HLA Fusion™ 4.7.x software can be used to facilitate antibody analysis.

Two case studies outline the use of these additions to the ‘HLA Toolbox’:
Read the case studies

Join us for a case presentation webinar where these cases will be presented by Victoria Wood, Transplant Technical Sales Specialist:

Webinar: Case Studies from the Epitope-Analysis Toolbox
Thursday, 9th April 2026
13:00 BST | 30 minutes including Q&A
Register your interest

EFI/BSHI Conference 2026
2026-04-21 09:00 - 2026-04-24 17:00 | Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, 150 Morrison St, Edinburgh, EH3 8EE
‘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.
Arrange to meet
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
Register for the pre-EFI workshop
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
Get in touch to meet up at EFI/BSHI 2026

Microbe 2026
2026-10-09 - 2026-10-11
VH Bio’s Microbiology team is delighted to have been invited to the exclusive Microbe 2026 Conference!
We’re looking forward to attending Sheffield Microbe 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel from 9-11 October 2026.
Get in touch if you’ll be there and would like to arrange to meet!
Plan to meet
