About Us

The Canadian Pathology Quality Assurance – Assurance qualité canadienne en pathologie (CPQA-AQCP) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to ensuring quality biomarker testing in medical diagnostic laboratories. We provide proficiency testing, as well as assistance with biomarker optimization and validation if we can.

Registration for 2027 surveys is now open!

Current and new labs can register for 2027 here!

TMA Scorer

Looking to enter your results for a CPQA-AQCP survey? Head over to TMA Scorer.

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Registered participants can sign up for 2027 subscriptions now.

Molecular EQA

Read more about the CPQA-AQCP Molecular Division.

2027 registration is now open. Plus, we are excited to announce the dates for our upcoming annual Scientific Symposium. We hope you can join us from May 29-30, 2027 in downtown Montreal at the Concordia University Conference Center!

Program Schedule

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Tentative schedule
	Biomarker	Run No.
September	Chromogranin A Synaptophysin CK20 Gastric HER2 IHC	319 320 321 322
October	KI67 breast IDH1/ATRX 1p19q FISH	323 324 325
November	Calretinin PD-L1 (technical) ER/PR breast HER2 breast	326 327 328 329
December	BRAFV600E melanoma p53 (vulvar) PRAME H&E	330 331 332 333
January	p63/AMACR/HMWCK HMB45	334 335
February	Class 1 HSV (tentative) Claudin 18.2 H. pylori	336 337 338
March	pan-TRK IHC c-MYC (lymphomas) Gastric HER2 ISH	339 340 341
April	Gastric HER2 IHC PD-L1 (technical) BRAFV600E (CRC)	342 343 344
May	Breast HER2 IHC ER/PR Breast IHC H&E	345 346 347
June	MMR ROS1 (technical)	348 349
July	ALK ISH CD117 ALK IHC (lung)	350 351 352
August	CD20 p53 (endometrial) p16 Breast HER2 ISH	353 354 355 356
September	Chromogranin A Synaptophysin CK20 Gastric HER2 IHC	357 358 359 360
October	Ki67 IDH1/ATRX 1p19q FISH	361 362 363
November	Calretinin PD-L1 (technical) ER/PR Breast IHC HER2 Breast IHC	364 365 366 367
December	BRAFV600E melanoma p53 (vulvar) PRAME H&E	368 369 370 371