Laboratory Proficiency Testing
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Subject Areas on Research
- A quality control program within a clinical trial Consortium for PCR protocols to detect Plasmodium species.
- A roadmap for academic health centers to establish good laboratory practice-compliant infrastructure.
- Chromosome microarray proficiency testing and analysis of quality metric data trends through an external quality assessment program for Australasian laboratories.
- Development and implementation of a proficiency testing program for Luminex bead-based cytokine assays.
- Development and implementation of an international proficiency testing program for a neutralizing antibody assay for HIV-1 in TZM-bl cells.
- Development of a contemporary globally diverse HIV viral panel by the EQAPOL program.
- Establishment and maintenance of a PBMC repository for functional cellular studies in support of clinical vaccine trials.
- Harmonizing lipidomics: NIST interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using SRM 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma.
- Implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines within the External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL).
- Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Immunological Methods: Building global resource programs to support HIV/AIDS clinical trial studies.
- Leukopak PBMC sample processing for preparing quality control material to support proficiency testing programs.
- Molecular genetic testing for fragile X syndrome: laboratory performance on the College of American Pathologists proficiency surveys (2001-2009).
- Molecular testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutations: a report on the College of American Pathologists proficiency testing surveys.
- Monitoring and ordering practices for human papillomavirus in cervical cytology: findings from the College of American Pathologists Gynecologic Cytopathology Quality Consensus Conference working group 5.
- Setting objective thresholds for rare event detection in flow cytometry.
- Sources of variability in quantification of cardiovascular magnetic resonance infarct size - reproducibility among three core laboratories.
- Statistical methods for the assessment of EQAPOL proficiency testing: ELISpot, Luminex, and Flow Cytometry.
- The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) multi-site quality assurance program for cryopreserved human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
- The External Quality Assurance Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL) proficiency program for IFN-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN-γ ELISpot) assay.
- The Immunology Quality Assessment Proficiency Testing Program for CD3⁺4⁺ and CD3⁺8⁺ lymphocyte subsets: a ten year review via longitudinal mixed effects modeling.
- Toward development of a comprehensive external quality assurance program for polyfunctional intracellular cytokine staining assays.
- VERITAS?: A time for VERIQAS™ and a new approach to training, education, and the quality assessment of CD4+ T lymphocyte counting (I).
- Variability of the IFN-γ ELISpot assay in the context of proficiency testing and bridging studies.