Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 12 PM-1 PM ET
Roundtable presenters Dr. David Sacks MB, ChB, FRCPath, Chairman, Steering Committee National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP), and Priya Sivaraman, PhD, Senior Technical Product Manager, Tosoh Bioscience.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Thursday, September 24, 2026 11 AM-12 PM CT
This session explores the evolving role of RAS in precision oncology, from the biology of RAS mutations to the expanding landscape of targeted therapies. Through expert presentations, real-world case discussions, and interactive audience polling, participants will examine best practices for RAS biomarker testing across solid tumors, including lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. The session will highlight practical considerations for tissue and liquid biopsy, strategies to address testing gaps, and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure timely identification of patients who may benefit from RAS-targeted therapies.
Webinar presenters David Braxton, MD, Chief of Molecular Pathology Services, Hoag Family Cancer Institute & Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and Carlos Becerra, MD, Research Director for Medical Oncology, Margaret Given Larkin Endowed Chair for Developmental Cancer Therapeutics, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, September 30, 2026. 1 PM-1:30 PM ET
Roundtable presenters John Longshore, PhD, Head of Scientific Affairs, Global Oncology Diagnostics, AstraZeneca, and Flora Berisha, MS, Executive Director, Global Head of Diagnostic Partnering and Development, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, and Mark D. Ewalt, MD, Associate Medical Director for Laboratory Operations, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Isabel Preeshagul, DO, MBS, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 11 AM-12 PM ET
Hear experts review the biological and clinical significance of the HER2 expression continuum in breast tissue, providing a clearer understanding of how these variations might impact diagnosis, and discuss the emerging importance of documenting HER2-low and HER2-ultralow categories using a validated IHC assay.
Webinar presenters Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Global Medical Affairs Leader–Pathology,
Roche Diagnostics Solutions, and Hannah Y. Wen, MD, PhD, Director, Breast Pathology Fellowship, Associate Team Leader, Breast Pathology Team, Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
August 2020—SpIntellx and CellNetix Pathology & Laboratories will collaborate to validate the SpIntellx HistoMapr-Breast Platform. The platform is the first in the companies’ larger efforts to use explainable artificial intelligence-assisted lab processes in the development of diagnostics, prognostics, therapeutic strategies, and drug development for tumor and non-tumor diseases.
Published in June:
At the pandemic’s serologic frontier
The arrival of a pandemic has shown—among many, many other things—that anyone who talks about it typically starts by saying, “This is a pandemic.” The next sentence tends to be, “It’s a completely different situation,” whether the focus is grocery shopping, exercising (or not), voting, or practicing medicine. Pointing to the pandemic is a polite way of saying, “All bets are off.” For many, it’s been a springboard to innovation and breakthroughs, even in the midst of considerable anguish. For clinical laboratories, however, much has felt unsettling, especially when the conversation turns to serology testing for SARS-CoV-2. It’s a topic stuffed to overflowing with interest, enthusiasm—and, early on, antibody tests themselves. That also meant months, possibly stretching into summer, in which laboratories faced more questions than answers, at a time when the demand for serology tests seems insatiable (and somewhat perplexing).
July 2020—Gestational diabetes mellitus, if left untreated, is notoriously dangerous for mothers and their babies, making timely diagnosis critical. Yet the disease is similarly well known for being chronically under-diagnosed by laboratory testing.
July 2020—If a manufacturer assists a laboratory in setting up a new FDA-approved or -cleared test, the lab must make sure that the personnel who will perform the test participate in the verification or validation study.
July 2020—A machine learning algorithm, used in conjunction with BioFire’s Syndromic Trends, demonstrated a mechanism for near real-time outbreak detection of enterovirus D68, says a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Virology.
July 2020—When patients who have colorectal cancer surgery at another institution seek further care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the Beth Israel pathologists routinely request the original slides. Raul S. Gonzalez, MD, a gastrointestinal pathologist at Beth Israel, says he usually agrees with everything the outside pathologist reports. But if there are differences, lymph nodes versus tumor deposits is one place where he might disagree.
July 2020—Unveiled in 2018, HistoQC, an open-source quality control tool for digital pathology slides, was an “awakening to a problem” and the kickoff of a conversation, says Andrew Janowczyk, PhD, its main investigator. And while it’s hard to measure the tool’s use because it’s freely available, he says, reception has been strong. “It’s been a pretty good ride,” he says of its first two years.
July 2020—A 77-year-old woman presented at our institution for care with a remote history of lymphoma. Three years earlier she had a bone marrow biopsy performed that by report showed five percent monoclonal kappa restricted plasma cells. At the initial presentation at our institution, serum protein electrophoresis and immunofixation showed an IgA kappa paraprotein (0.52 g/dL), and bone marrow biopsy showed less than five percent plasma cells by CD138 immunohistochemistry that were kappa light chain restricted by flow cytometry, with normal renal function and calcium level. A PET-CT indicated no lytic bone lesions. These findings confirmed the diagnosis of IgA kappa monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Her past medical history was remarkable for chronic oral ulcers for five years of possible autoimmune etiology that were responsive to methylprednisolone, a stroke, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
July—When COVID-19 set in, much of residency education in the U.S. moved online. At the University of Washington School of Medicine, anatomic pathology faculty took online learning a step further by creating a virtual two-week anatomic pathology rotation for medical students. The faculty is aiming for a four-week virtual rotation inclusive of more laboratory medicine, to be used even after the pandemic has passed.
July 2020—Has the pandemic changed your thinking or that of your customers? That’s one of the questions CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle put to seven representatives of five companies and two other panelists in a May 13 roundtable on chemistry/immunoassay analyzers and testing. But first up were other topics: scalability, connectivity, standardizing platforms across health systems, consistent sourcing of antibodies, and open automation.
