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The EFI Members section currently contains articles from the newsletter and information on member distribution.

EFI Presidents Eulogy for Renée Fauchet - you can read Dominique Charron's tribute to the late Renée Fauchet on the President's Page.
Final Version 5.5 of the EFI Standards (pdf) - prepared by the Standards and QA Committee following the last 3 meetings of the Committee in Istanbul (April 2005), Leiden (November 2005), Oslo (June 2006) and Barcelona (2007).

The major changes of this proposal concern :

Qualification of Director/Co-Director (B2.000)
QA : test evaluation and monitoring (C4.220)
Definition of high resolution typing (D1.320)
New subsection on Haplotype assignment D2.000), replacing the one on Family studies
Minor modifications in section E
Crossmatching subsection (F6.000) merged to section F, aimed to allow accreditation for crossmatching in laboratories not involved in organ transplantation, and to set up precise regulations for omitting a pre-transplant crossmatch for non immunized patients (section G).
Rules for confirmatory typing (related/unrelated donors) in HSCT (section I)
New subsection on bead array techniques (M4.000)

These revised standards will be submitted to the EFI Executive Committee for approval during the autumn 2006 meeting.

EFI Teaching Sessions - Teaching sessions from the EFI conferences are available online
EFI Abstracts - The abstracts from the recent EFI meetings are available online
Membership of EFI Committee - any EFI member wishing to participate in a committee should complete the following application form