Laboratory Exchange Programme (EFLMLabX)

EFLMLabX is one of the most practical ways to take your career one step ahead. I would like to express my endless gratitude to the EFLM association for giving me that opportunity. Before going into the details of the wonderful experience, let me briefly introduce myself. After completing medical school in 2014, I worked in the emergency room for a year and a half. During that time, I realized that I was interested in the wide world of biochemistry and I turned to this field. I entered Medical Biochemistry Specialization Program which requires top scores with the National Medical Specialization Exam in Türkiye and completed my 4-year specialization education in 2020. For 3 years, I have been working as a Specialist Doctor in a governmental laboratory that has been dealing with more than 6500 samples of 2000 patients on average daily...

There have been many things I wanted to do throughout my career. But what I would most was an opportunity for international cooperation. Unfortunately, although I am a scientist who writes international articles, I have never had the opportunity to communicate internationally in my professional life.  Moreover, I was over the age of 40, when all scholarship opportunities were over. When I thought that was not possible anymore, I discovered the EFLM-Labx service and applied. And, I was accepted University Clinical Center Maribor in Slovenia for Laboratory diagnostics of autoimmune diseases with EFLMLabx scholarship.

Judit Gonda from Budapest, Hungary shared her EFLM LabX experience from the UCL Saint-Luc laboratory in Brussels, Belgium. During the winter of 2022, she spent one month at the laboratory headed by Prof. Damien Gruson. Her exchange program was supported by the EFLM LabX bursary, and the aim of the visit was to learn routine work in the laboratory as well as to collect notable knowledge about the measurement and evaluation of cardiac biomarkers from prof. Gruson and his colleagues.