Events First Lifelong VISION Summerschool

25 June 2026 to 26 June 2026

We are pleased to share the final programme for the Livelong VISION Summer School

Thursday 25 June, 2026:

9:30-9:45                 

 

 

9:45-10:25

 

10:25-11:05

 

11:05-11:30

11:30-12:10

 

12:10-13:00

Welcome      

Ivar Noordstra, RadboudUMC/Paola Serrano Martinez, Amsterdam UMC

Presentations (30 min, 10 min discussion) Teams link

Presentation organoid and organ-on-a-chip models

Yagmur Demircan Yalcin, RadboudUMC

Presentation rodent models

Céline Koster, Amsterdam UMC

Coffee break

Presentation zebrafish models

Rens Hoekstra & Lynn van Summeren, RadboudUMC

Q&A with Kapil Bharti

13:00-13:45

Lunch break, restaurant De Haardt (route 76)

13:45-16:00

Site visits to

A) Radboud Zebrafish Facility and B) Radboudumc Ophthalmology Maze

16:00-16:30

Clinical cases presentation

Yara Lechanteur, RadboudUMC

16:30-17:00

Patient interviews

Yara Lechanteur, RadboudUMC

Time for hotel check-in

 

18:30-21:00

Dinner and PUBQUIZ (In-person LLV Summer school attendees)

De Industrie | Weurtseweg 105, 6541 AP Nijmegen

Friday 26 June, 2026:

9:00-9:45                 

Foundations of Artificial Intelligence    Teams link 

Roland Németh, University of Amsterdam

 

10:00-11:00

Keynote lecture Teams link SAB presentations

Translating RPE Biology into Disease Treatment Using Stem Cells

Kapil Bharti, Scientific director NEI/NIH, USA

11:00-11:30

Chasing the Miracles of Science: My Path from Academia to Global Pharma Leadership

Anneke den Hollander, Global Head of Ophthalmology Research Sanofi, USA

11:45-12:30

Hands-on ML & DL

12:30-13:30

Lunch break 

13:30-14:30

Architectures: CNN, transformers, foundation models, GenAI, Agentic AI

Michael Fasching, University of Amsterdam Teams link 

14:30-14:45

Coffee break

14:45-15:45

Practical and ethical considerations for AI application in healthcare

Karin van Garderen, Erasmus MC Teams link 

15:45-17:00

Use case preparation ­> Bring your own data/problem

17:00-20:00

Borrel & Bites at Valdin

 

We very much look forward to seeing many of you in Nijmegen (or online).

The Summer school organisers: Ivar, Paola, Karin, Michael, Roland, Sterre.