Join us at the Oncode Annual Conference which will take place on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November, 2025, at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. We have prepared an exciting programme with national and international speakers and "meet the speakers tables" during breaks. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
A poster with confirmed speakers is available here.
Programme and registration
The programme for this event is available here. You can register through the registration form below.
The conference is open for the academic oncology research community. Limited seats are available for Industry attendance, a fee is applicable. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Attendance fee is free of charge but timely registration is required. In case of no-show, we wil charge a fee of 60 euro per person per day.
Please note that registration of individuals who are not part of the Oncode community need to be confirmed by the Oncode team.
The registration closes on 23 October.
6 November
| 8:30 | 9:30 | Walk in, registration and coffee |
| 9:30 | 9:40 | Welcome by Scientific Committee |
| Session I: | ||
| 9:40 | 10:15 | Plasticity, therapy resistance and immune evasion in metastatic colorectal cancer |
| Eduard Batlle, IRB Barcelona, Spain | ||
| 10:15 | 10:50 | Network-level epigenetic alterations in cancer evolution |
| Paola Scaffidi, IEO Research, Milan Italy | ||
| 10:50 | 11:35 | Break |
| 11:35 | 12:10 | Induced-Proximity Strategies to Modulate Receptor Signalling in Inflammation and Cancer |
| Ricardo Fernandes, CAMS Oxford Institute, UK | ||
| 12:10 | 12:45 | A Compendium of Genetic Screens to Discover ‘Alternative Pathways |
| Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute | ||
| 12:45 | 14:00 | Lunch and network |
| Session II | ||
| 14:00 | 14:35 | Epigenetic evolution and plasticity in colorectal cancer and the normal gut |
| Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole, Italy | ||
| 14:35 | 15:10 | Harnessing TCR Discoveries for the Next Generation of Immunotherapies |
| Susana Minguet Garcia, University of Freiburg, Germany | ||
| 15:10 | 15:55 | Break |
| 15:55 | 16:30 | Epigenomic evolution of breast cancers at single-cell resolution |
| Céline Vallot, Institut Curie, France | ||
| 16:30 | 17:05 | Approaching mitotic chromosome structure from all directions |
| Bill Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| 17:05 | 17:10 | Closing remarks |
| Scientific Committee | ||
| 17:10 | 18:10 | Networking drinks & bites |
7 November
| 8:30 | 9:30 | Walk in, registration and coffee |
| 9:30 | 9:40 | Welcome by Scientific Committee |
| Session III: | ||
| 9:40 | 10:15 | Pinning down the molecular origins of esophageal adenocarcinoma to inform earlier detection |
| Rebecca Fitzgerald, MRC/CRUK, UK | ||
| 10:15 | 10:50 | Mechanisms regulating stem cell plasticity during tumor initiation |
| Cédric Blanpain, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium | ||
| 10:50 | 11:35 | Break |
| 11:35 | 12:10 | Unlocking immunity: Decoding and reprogramming the immune-evasive tumor microenvironment |
| Anna Obenauf, IMP, Austria | ||
| 12:10 | 12:45 | Optimising CAR-T cell sensitivity by engineering extracellular receptor/ligand sizes |
| Omer Dushek, University of Oxford, UK | ||
| 12:45 | 14:00 | Lunch and network |
| Session IV | ||
| 14:00 | 14:35 | Protein design approaches in chromatin biology |
| Danny Sahtoe, Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands | ||
| 14:35 | 15:10 | Towards a quantitative understanding of enhance-promoter communication |
| Luca Giorgetti, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland | ||
| 15:10 | 15:55 | Break |
| 15:55 | 16:30 | Attenuation of ATM signaling by ROS delays replicative senescence at physiological oxygen |
| Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University, USA | ||
| 16:30 | 17:05 | Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cancer and Pre-Cancer |
| Margaret Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine, USA | ||
| 17:05 | 17:10 | Cl0sing remarks |
| Scientific Committee | ||
| 17:10 | 18:10 | Networking, drinks & bites |
Oncode Annual Conference 2025
The registration closes on 23 October