Lab Week

Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (Lab Week) is an annual celebration of medical laboratory professionals and pathologists who play a vital role in health care and patient advocacy!

Get Involved

Honor Your Staff

Celebrate Lab Week to honor yourself and your colleagues as a vital part of the lab community and have some fun while doing it!

Lab Week is a great time to generate new awareness and excitement about the laboratory medicine profession while having some fun with your lab team.

Fun Ideas

Looking for ways to celebrate Lab Week and promote the profession? Check out these fun ideas!

  • Set up a Lab Week photo booth
  • Create a Lab Week Bingo game
  • Show off your favorite Lab Week gear
  • Share your favorite case study
  • Play some music during lunch or break time and have a dance party
  • Lay out a puzzle and work on it during breaks
  • Create a team recipe book to give your team something to make at home

Exclusive Merchandise

Let all your colleagues know you’re excited about Lab Week by sporting exclusive ASCP Lab Week merchandise!
Purchase Lab Week Gear

The ASCP Laboratory Day of Service is a way for laboratory professionals and pathologists to transform their passion for this field into service that both empowers members and strengthens communities.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 photo and video contest! 

Check out all of the submissions!

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Lab Week Coalition

Lab Week gives us an opportunity to generate new awareness and excitement about the laboratory medicine profession. By getting the word out—to your networks, your local communities, and your healthcare colleagues—you can help everyone understand and appreciate the importance of the work you do. ASCP is one of 16 laboratory medicine organizations responsible for coordinating this high-profile celebration of your profession:

  • Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB)
  • American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
  • American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants (AAPA)
  • Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT)
  • American Medical Technologists (AMT)
  • Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP)
  • American Society of Cytopathology (ASC)
  • American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
  • American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
  • American Society for Cytotechnology (ASCT)
  • American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
  • American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
  • Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
  • College of American Pathologists (CAP)
  • National Society for Histotechnology (NSH)

MLPW Logo

Download the Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Logo made available free of charge. Color, black, and white versions of the logo are available. Images cannot be altered.
Download the logo package