Now available: SPIDIA4P Newsletter – 2024/2025
Stay informed – Latest developments in ISO & CEN standards and sample pre-analytical Biospecimen Proficiency Testing Program and more in the SPIDIA4P newsletter.
The EU project SPIDIA4P has developed over 20 quality standards for sample pre-analytics together with international partner and the standardization bodies ISO and CEN to which BBMRI.at experts from Med Uni Graz contributed or head a leading role.
Although SPIDIA4P has officially ended, its mission is being actively continued by former consortium members.
In the current newsletter, read about:
- Pre-analytical standards undergoing a systemativ revision:
- ISO-series 20166: FFPE tissue – in Revision (FFPE-DNA, FFPE protein); Next Systematic Review (SR): Q2/2026 (FFPE-in situ detection)
- ISO-series 20184: Frozen tissue – in Revision (Isolated RNA, Isolated proteins); Next Systematic Review (SR): Q2/2026 (Isolated DNA)
- ISO-series 20186: Venous whole blood – in Revision (Isolated cellular RNA, Isolated genomic DNA, Isolated circulating cell free DNA from plasma)
- Standards under development
- *CEN/TS 17626: Human specimen – Isolated microbiome DNA – In development as EN ISO/TS 18701
- CEN/TS 17742:2022: Venous whole blood – Isolated circulating cell free RNA from plasma – In development as EN ISO 18703
- CEN/TS 17747:2022: Venous whole blood – DNA, RNA and proteins – In development as EN ISO/TS 18702
- CEN/TS 17811:2022: Urine and other body fluids – Isolated cell free DNA – In development as EN ISO 18704
- *ISO 24051-2: Digital Pathology & AI-based Image analysis
*with BBMRI.at experts from Med Uni Graz (Cornelia Stumptner, Kurt Zatloukal) have a leading role in the development)
- The CEN/CENELEC Standard + Innovation Award 2024 was awarded to Kurt Zatloukal (former BBMRI.at National Node Director & Coordinator, Instand-NGS4P coordinator and SPIDIA4P member) for his extensive contribution to standardization. Congratulations!
- SPIDIA4P project members support new SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics
- Updates from other consortia involving SPIDIA4P members – such as the EU project MICROBE, and GenomeMET where BBMRI.at is actively involved and where SPIDIA4P’s legacy lives on, recognized and carried into new fields.