We are pleased to share the final programme for the Livelong VISION Summer School
Thursday 25 June, 2026:
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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 |
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13:00-13:45 |
Lunch break, restaurant De Haardt (route 76) |
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13:45-16:00 |
Site visits to A) Radboud Zebrafish Facility and B) Radboudumc Ophthalmology Maze |
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16:00-16:30 |
Clinical cases presentation Yara Lechanteur, RadboudUMC |
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16:30-17:00 |
Patient interviews Yara Lechanteur, RadboudUMC |
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Time for hotel check-in |
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18:30-21:00 |
Dinner and PUBQUIZ (In-person LLV Summer school attendees) De Industrie | Weurtseweg 105, 6541 AP Nijmegen |
Friday 26 June, 2026:
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9:00-9:45 |
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Teams link Roland Németh, University of Amsterdam |
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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 |
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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 |
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11:45-12:30 |
Hands-on ML & DL |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch break |
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13:30-14:30 |
Architectures: CNN, transformers, foundation models, GenAI, Agentic AI Michael Fasching, University of Amsterdam Teams link |
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14:30-14:45 |
Coffee break |
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14:45-15:45 |
Practical and ethical considerations for AI application in healthcare Karin van Garderen, Erasmus MC Teams link |
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15:45-17:00 |
Use case preparation > Bring your own data/problem |
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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.