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International collaborations

Cancer is a global challenge, and progress depends on working across borders, disciplines and institutions. At the Netherlands Cancer Institute, we collaborate with leading international partners to connect expertise, share infrastructure and accelerate discovery, translation and clinical impact.

These collaborations strengthen our science, expand our perspective and help us move faster towards better outcomes for patients.

Cancer Core Europe

Cancer Core Europe (CCE) is an alliance of seven leading European cancer centres that accelerates innovative cancer therapies through translational and clinical research. For the NKI, it strengthens collaboration at the interface of discovery and patient care.

EACS

The European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS) is an independent advisory body that helps place science at the centre of European cancer policy. NKI’s involvement reflects our commitment to scientific excellence and impact beyond the institute.

EU-LIFE

EU-LIFE is an alliance of independent European life science institutes that promotes excellence in research and research management. It connects the NKI to a broader network of institutes shaping the future of life sciences in Europe.

Cancer is a global problem and only global collaboration will ensure that we make the great advances in research and cancer care that we have committed ourselves to make.

Emile Voest Former Chair of Cancer Core Europe

Euro PDX

The EURO-PDX Consortium brings together translational and clinical researchers working with patient-derived xenograft models. NKI contributes expertise in preclinical cancer models, with Jos Jonkers serving on the consortium board.

Instruct-ERIC

Instruct-ERICis a European research infrastructure consortium that gives access to advanced technologies and methods in structural biology. The NKI Protein Facility is part of the Dutch national Instruct Centre, connecting the institute to a wider European research infrastructure for structural biology methods and technologies.

OECI

The Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) promotes cooperation among cancer centres and institutes across Europe. It supports exchange, standards and collaboration within the European cancer field. Our CFOO Jacqueline Stouthard is on the Board of OECI.

Precision

Funded by Cancer Research UK and the Dutch Cancer Society, the Precision ‘Grand Challenge’ Team aims at sparing thousands of women unnecessary treatment by finding biomarkers to distinguish between people with DCIS who will develop breast cancer and those who will not.