Sensathon 2026 – Searching for answers together
On April 10th, Susanne Roosing, Rob Collin and Sterre Mulder of the LifeLong Vision consortium organized with Mechteld van Olden and Dirk Wijn the Sensathon, during the Hearing & Vision 4 All research program day at Radboudumc.
During this hackathon, multidisciplinary teams worked on selected genetically undiagnosed cases, focusing on inherited retinal diseases and deafness. The strength of this initiative lies in the collaboration between the department of Human genetics, Ophthalmology, and ENT—bringing together complementary expertise to drive new insights and advances in diagnosis and patient care.
We are excited that colleagues from LifeLong Vision Yara Lechanteur, Jessie Hendriks, Merel Stemerdink, Lynn van Summeren, Rens Hoekstra, Valentin Del Cura Mrugcaz have contributed to this effort, alongside many other experts.
💡 The outcome has been rewarding! The day has yielded several new leads, and requests for additional clinical or functional tests have been made and even an urgent intervention in clinical care was addressed.
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