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
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Roche.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the evolving role of PD-L1 testing in HNSCC and ovarian cancer.
Webinar presenter Georgios Deftereos, MD, Professor of Pathology, Associate Director of the Clinical Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Director of Molecular Cytopathology, University of California, San Francisco
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Agilent.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the challenges of detecting NRG1 fusions and how RNA-based testing can support more comprehensive fusion identification in clinical practice.
Webinar presenter Benjamin Weinberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician
specializing in gastrointestinal medical oncology
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Diaceutics.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM ET
Join us for a session to help improve diagnostic accuracy in your practice when scoring HER2 IHC 0 with faint, incomplete membrane staining in ≤10% of tumor cells vs IHC 0 with no membrane staining detected in patients with mBC.
Webinar presenter Jeffrey Gregg, MD, University of Nevada
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Monday, November 16, 2026, 12:30 PM-2 PM ET
Hear experts discuss a multidisciplinary approach to oncopathology for HER2
assessments for solid tumors in the absence of a companion diagnostic.
Webinar presenters Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Medical Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Emina E. Torlakovic, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Biomarker Quality Assurance, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Carol Cheung, MD, PhD, JD, FRCPC, Deputy Director, Canadian Biomarker Quality, Assurance—Programme canadien d’assurance de la qualité des biomarqueurs
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
January 2021—Bio-Rad Laboratories launched its SARS-CoV-2, Flu, RSV positive and negative run controls. The products enable laboratories to evaluate day-to-day and lot-to-lot variation of their multiplexed molecular assay and test for operator proficiency.
January 2021—Fluidigm received emergency use authorization from the FDA for the Advanta Dx SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay, an extraction-free, saliva-based test to detect nucleic acid from the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus. The test runs on the Fluidigm Biomark HD microfluidics platform, which can generate as many as 6,000 test results in one day.
January 2021—The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the first serology antibody point-of-care test for COVID-19. The Assure COVID-19 IgG/IgM Rapid Test Device (Azure Biotech) was first authorized in July for emergency use by certain labs to help identify individuals with antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. The EUA has been reissued to authorize the test for POC use using fingerstick blood samples. The lateral flow assay is authorized for use with venous whole blood, serum, plasma, and fingerstick whole blood.
January 2021—DiaSorin Molecular has attained CE marking for the addition of saliva specimens for use with the Simplexa COVID-19 Direct assay.
December 2020—Protein-based, ready-to-use liquid Matrix Plus Cholesterol Reference kits are available from Verichem Laboratories. The kits are designed to support overall system quality control and CLIA compliance and are for the calibration or calibration verification of cholesterol and uric acid wet assays on clinical testing systems. The materials contain esterified and free cholesterol from bovine serum. The standard kit with the sixth level F covers 12 concentration points; cholesterol concentrations range from 40 to 750 mg/dL and uric acid concentrations from 2 to 30 mg/dL. Active components are verified using standard reference materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Shelf life is 21 months from the date of manufacture. Ready-to-use, liquid Total Protein and Albumin reference materials are also available. The combined Total Protein/Albumin Standard kit, along with the optional standalone Total Protein/Albumin Standard level F, are designed for the calibration and calibration verification of albumin and total protein assays on a wide number of clinical testing systems. The standards are prepared with human serum albumin and gamma-globulin serum proteins in a saline-based solution. Shelf life is 24 months from the manufacturing date.
December 2020—ARUP Laboratories announced the availability of a combined test to detect and differentiate COVID-19, influenza, and/or respiratory syncytial virus in individuals with respiratory symptoms consistent with COVID-19. The test can be performed on specimens collected using a deep nasal swab or on specimens collected from the back of the throat and the front of both nostrils.
December 2020—Siemens Healthineers announced a master collaboration agreement with Novartis Pharma to design, develop, and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Novartis’ therapeutic pipeline. The initial program will focus on developing a serum neurofilament light chain immunoassay for patients with multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases.
December 2020—Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced a service designed to enable its team of technical experts to monitor Wi-Fi-connected Thermo Scientific TSX series ultra-low temperature freezers.
December 2020—PCR Biosystems has introduced its NGSBIO Library Quant Kit for Illumina. The kit contains all the components necessary for accurate and sensitive quantification of DNA libraries prior to next-generation sequencing with Illumina platforms. The kit contains five DNA standards, primers specific to the p5 and p7 Illumina adapter sequences, a library dilution buffer, and qPCRBIO SyGreen Mix or qPCRBIO SyGreen Blue Mix. The blue qPCR mix contains a nonreactive dye to improve reaction mix visibility and is useful when using small reaction volumes or white plates.
December 2020—Roche announced FDA approval of Gavreto (pralsetinib) for the treatment of adults with metastatic rearranged during transfection fusion–positive non-small cell lung cancer as detected by an FDA-approved test. Gavreto is a once-daily, oral precision therapy designed to selectively target RET alterations, including fusions and mutations.
