It has been three years since the first Sysmex International Scientific Seminar was held in Singapore in 2006. This time Sysmex Asia Pacific, in collaboration with Sysmex Corporation, held its 2nd International Scientific Seminar at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 14 and 15 December 2009, with more than 300 delegates from 14 countries worldwide attending this seminar.

This seminar is the most important and biggest scientific event organized by Sysmex Asia Pacific. The aim of this scientific and educational seminar series is to present exciting new developments in clinical and laboratory diagnostics and to share knowledge, experience and solutions to the challenges experienced in clinical and laboratory diagnostic world.

Ten speakers from Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania graced the seminar with informative and interesting updates in the field of clinical and laboratory diagnostics. Clinical utility of novel parameters and approaches in diagnosing diseases were discussed at the first session, “State of the Art”. In the second session, “Defining Disease States”, the diagnostic potential of combining data from hematological measurements was explored; and during the third session, “Diagnostic Morphology/Cellular analysis”, the power of technology in cell analysis was discussed.