EFI - The European Federation for Immunogenetics

............ from the EFI President

Dear EFI Members:

Toulouse, oh Toulouse! La « ville rose » will welcome the 2008 EFI annual conference.

The scientific program is as attractive as is exciting the cultural city and I encourage all of you to join and enjoy. Also, 2008 will be the year of the 15th International Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Workshop and Conference in Brazil.

I sincerely hope that 2008 will make progress towards a structured international organization in which EFI will have an essential and proactive role. On the professional side of our Society, 2008 will be a landmark. Over 200 laboratories are accredited by EFI. The challenge is for us to be ready for the next 200!!!.

EFI is engaging a refl ection on how to best contribute to the International development of accreditation schemes in all the Eastern European states, in the Mediterranean area, in the Middle East and also in Asia, and in South America in collaboration with ASHI, ASEATTA and other national and regional organizations that share our goals, values and projects. I have securedthe participation of EFI to AHCTA and Poseidon which are instrumental for this development and we will all work together toward this important goal.

I wish every EFI member and one’s family a New Year 2008 full of success, joy and serenity.

Dominique Charron
EFI President (E mail: dominique.charron@sls.aphp.fr