Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the Oncode Institute on Monday 5 February at the Royal Tropics Institute in Amsterdam. The Oncode Institute is an independent virtual institute that brings together cancer researchers in the Netherlands. The launch will take place in the Royal Tropics Institute in Amsterdam.
The Oncode Institute focuses on three pillars: excellent research, intensive collaboration, and the utilisation of scientific knowledge for patients. The goal is to translate fundamental insights on cancer as soon and as efficiently as possible to realise better and more affordable healthcare. In the next five years the Dutch Cancer Society, together with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, will invest a total of €125 million in the Oncode Institute.
At the opening, the speakers will include Hans Clevers (Princess Maxima Centre), Koos Boering (Dutch Cancer Society), Jan Schellens (Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek), Robbert Dijkgraaf (Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) and David Livingston (Harvard Cancer Centre).