Personalised cancer medicine stands at the intersection of diagnosis, treatment, and outcome measurement. The real power of evidence-based oncology lies in uniting these three pillars into a continuous feedback loop, thereby creating the basis for a learning healthcare system. In such a system, real-time clinical, molecular, imaging, and pathology data are systematically captured, analysed, and fed back into clinical practice, enabling ever more precise and effective care.
The ability to reuse patient-level clinical, genomic, radiology, and digital pathology data at scale is not merely a technological aspiration – it is a necessity for accelerating cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment innovation. The data-integration platform ‘cBioPortal’ has emerged as a practical, widely adopted platform over its 15 years of existence, that can make this vision tangible for clinicians and researchers alike!
Now, in light of the ambitions of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the growing need for semantic interoperability across data infrastructures, we are pleased to announce a symposium devoted to cBioPortal. This symposium will bring together a range of perspectives about topics such as:
- Challenges and opportunities in the European cancer data research landscape
- Dutch user experiences with cBioPortal
- cBioPortal & common data models (for clinical, genomic, radiology and pathology data)
We would like to invite cBioPortal users and developers, as well as anyone interested in data integration, semantic interoperability, and FAIR data principles, to join us for this symposium, which will be hosted at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.
Additionally, a live stream of the event will be shared, for those who would like to listen to the presentations but cannot travel to the location.
For an overview of the symposium in more detail, you can find the agenda below.
The symposium is free of charge, but registration is required. You can register via this link.
We hope to welcome you in Amsterdam on the 11th of November!