Sociedade Portuguesa de Citologia

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to inform you that the 44th European Congress of 
Cytology will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 1-4 October 2023.

The homepage of the congress is already active: https://cytology2023.eu/

You are kindly invited to visit the homepage and sign up for the 
newsletter. We also request you to distribute the information among 
your members.

The two leading mottos of the conference are „combined intelligence” 
and „melting point”.
“The diagnosis by aspiration is as reliable as the combined 
intelligence of the clinician and pathologist makes it.” (Stewart, 
1933). This statement is still true in the 21th century, in the 
century of data based combined natural and even artificial intelligence.
The melting point of a substance is the temperature at which a solid 
and liquid phase may coexist in equilibrium. It is desirable the reach 
this equilibrium of different ideas and thoughts in all facets of 
cytopathology. The Congresses main purpose in finding the acceptable 
equilibria points following discussions, debates during sessions, 
slide seminars, Companion Meetings and every official and private 
exchange of thoughts – using everywhere the combined intelligence.

By this letter we would like to invite all member countries to hold 
Companion Meetings at the congress.

For the Companion Meetings the congress offers:
A time slot of 45-60 minutes.
A breakout room for 50-100 PAX equipped with general conference 
audio-visual technique (no microscopes).
Advertising the meeting in the Scientific Program based on the 
information from the “Companion” on the website and in Final Program 
(on- and/or off-line)

The Companions are kindly requested to:
Inform us that they would like to organize a meeting, preferably 
before 30 September 2022.
Compile the scientific contents of the meeting.
Arrange for the registration of all speakers.


We look forward to hearing from you soon and meeting you in Budapest 
next year.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 
scientific@cytology2023.eu