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Onderzoekschool Oncologie Amsterdam

Oncology graduate school amsterdam, welcome to ooa.

Also known as: Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam. OOA is a joint graduate school of the Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam and the Netherlands Cancer Institute, VU and UvA. We are dedicated to the training of more than 1000 PhD students working in the field of Oncology.

Strong integration of basic, translational and clinical oncology research

OOA, accredited most recently for the period 2023-2028, provides an educational program for PhD students in Amsterdam. Our program consists of a series of courses that cover specific topics in oncology, a PhD day and an annual retreat. The fruitful collaboration between Amsterdam UMC and NKI-AvL provides PhD candidates the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with many internationally recognized scientists.

This website gives you an overview of our education programme and a brief description of ongoing research. Please contact us for more detailed information.

Check out our upcoming courses

Conference on Cancer Vaccines and Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy

• September 4, 2024
• ‘De Rode Hoed’, Amsterdam

Ethics and integrity for NKI PhD candidates – sept

• September 30, 2024

OOA retreat 2024

• October 9 - 11, 2024

Ethics and Integrity for NKI PhD candidates – Oct

• 21 October, 2024

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Courses on Research Integrity

• Several dates

All scientists will recognize the pressure to publish and to gain grants. This may result in the temptation to cut a few corners, or worse. Resisting that temptation is not always easy. There are also many dilemmas for which the answer is not easy to give and which raise doubts about what is the right thing to do. We will discuss these issues in our blended course.

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What does it mean to do ‘good’ research and to be a ‘good’ researcher? What does it mean to act ‘professionally’ and with ‘integrity’? How can we approach moral dilemmas experienced in research?

This VIRT2UE PhD course for Research Integrity will explore these questions and more. The course follows a blended learning approach. PhD students undertake series of short interactive eLearning modules as preparatory assignments: 1) ‘Introduction to Research Integrity’; 2) ‘Introduction of Virtue Ethics to Research Integrity’; 3) ‘Virtue Ethics under Current Research Conditions’ 4) ‘Introduction to Responsible Supervision, Mentoring and Role-modelling’.

Over in-person sessions covering two days, PhD students are guided through a series of structured dialogical exercises for fostering reflection on scientific virtues, and how to promote understanding of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity , which is the primary guidance document on research integrity for academic institutions in Europe.

Students are also made aware of the institutional support available to them when they encounter questionable research practices.

This course is free for PhD students of Amsterdam UMC.

• €550,-
• Faculteit der Geneeskunde Vrije Universiteit

eLearning modules

-          Introduction to research integrity -          Introduction of virtue ethics to research integrity -          Virtue ethics under current circumstances -          Introduction to Responsible Supervision, Mentoring and Role-modeling

In-person sessions 1,5 days days of online participatory learning consisting of lectures, small group work and Q&A sessions on research integrity.

Assignments Individual and group assignments

Target group

This course is appropriate for all PhD students. It is a mandatory course for students from Amsterdam UMC.

Registration Costs

The online course is free for PhD students of Amsterdam UMC External registration is € 550,-

Research Integrity group D, 2023

Day 1: Thursday September 7th - 09:30 - 17:00 hrs Day 2: Thursday September 28th - 09.30 - 13.00 hrs

Research Integrity group E, 2023

Day 1: Monday October 2nd - 09:30 - 17:00 hrs Day 2: Monday October 30th - 09.30 - 13.00 hrs

Research Integrity group F, 2023

Day 1: Thursday November 9th - 09:30 - 17:00 hrs Day 2: Thursday November 30th - 09.30 - 13.00 hrs

Research Integrity group G, 2023

Day 1: Thursday November 23rd - 09:30 - 17:00 hrs Day 2: Thursday December 14th - 09.30 - 13.00 hrs

Course coordinator

Dr. Natalie Evans, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities

Cancellation

Cancellation of your registration may only be done in writing at the latest one month prior to the first day of the course. We will refund the amount due except Euro 35,- administration fee. After this date, no amount will be refunded.

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Each Amsterdam UMC PhD candidate follows an individual training program learning how to conduct independent, original and scientifically significant research, and critically evaluate their own work and that of others. According to the Doctorate Regulations VUmc PhD candidate shall devote at least 30 ECTS (840 hours) to training. AMC PhD candidates are advised to build a portfolio of 20-30 ECTS.

Registered Amsterdam UMC PhD candidates (AMC/UvA at AMC Graduate School, VUmc/VU at Hora Finita) may apply at any time for one or more courses of the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School. Unless stated otherwise, the courses are offered free of charge. The general introductory course ‘The Amsterdam UMC World of Science’ is highly recommended for all new Amsterdam UMC PhD candidates. This course should preferably be taken during the first year of research. The other courses can be taken in any order. An overview of courses can be found on the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School website.

Recommended PhD courses for all APH PhD candidates (Amsterdam UMC, VU or UvA) can be found on the APH website . Amsterdam Public Health aims to support, educate and guide the next generation of public health researchers. Besides the VUmc/VU education requirements the APH research institute’s education requirements include 6 EC on courses focused on advanced (methodological) research skills in public health. For other research institutes education requirements, read the APH PhD Handbook.

For PhD candidates working on a project that is embedded within APH, a discount of 25% applies to the course fee of epidemiology and advanced methodology courses organized by EpidM and/or the Master program in Epidemiology. A condition for obtaining the discount is that the research project is embedded within APH. This means that the project must have been approved by the Scientific Quality Committee of APH and has received the official embedding letter with a SQC number.

To meet the latest requirements to be allowed to carry out scientific research in the Netherlands the University Medical Centers in the Netherlands developed a Basic Course Organization Clinical scientific research (‘ B asiscu r sus  O rganisatie  K linisch wetenschappelijk onderzoek’; BROK course). For information about the BROK course see websites; VUmc ; AMC and NFU.

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Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam (OOA)

OOA is joint graduate school of VUmc, the Netherlands Cancer Institute (Nederlands Kanker Instituut - NKI) and the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC). The OOA's graduate students are scientists-in-training who also receive theoretical and practical education on various subjects related to cancer research PhD candidates who work on  cancer-related research projects join OOA. About 500 PhD candidates are currently members of OOA.  The Graduate School OOA offers an annual retreat, meet-the-expert sessions and courses that cover specific topics in the field of oncology. This programme is flexible and focuses on cutting edge scientific topics, ranging from functional genomics to animal models in cancer and from protein structure to invasion and metastasis. Students make a selection from these courses on the basis of their interests and research background. Please see our  OOA website  for more information about the OOA.

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Computing in R (AMC PhD Program)

Information about the course Computing in R.

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R is a simple programming language for statistical computing. Due to its simplicity, flexibility and the large variety of statistical functions available in R, it is a popular alternative for programs like SPSS. However, for a beginner mastering R can be rather difficult. This course helps the PhD candidate to become familiar with the basics of R. After the course the PhD candidate will be able to write short programs in R for basic data analyses and for plotting high-quality figures.

This course is part of the 'Systems Medicine' training program that includes the courses Bioinformatic, Bioinformatics Sequence Analysis, Systems Medicine, E-science, Computing in R and Unix.

The course is given twice a year on four morning sessions and consists of a mix of lectures and computer exercises. If you already have some experience with R, you are encouraged to take your own clinical or omics data with you and bring what has been learnt into practice on this dataset during the 2nd afternoon session.

Scheduled dates:

• September 21, 22, 24 and 25, 2020
• March 22, 23, 25 and 26, 2021

Topics covered are:

• Installation of R and its packages.
• Data import and export.
• R syntax: data structures and functions .
• Graphics in R.
• Documentation and help.
• Data manipulation.
• Simple statistical functions: model fitting.
• Programming in R.

Target Audience:

AMC PhD candidates. Note that the focus of this course is not on statistics. The AMC Graduate School provides the courses Practical Biostatistics and Advanced Topics in Biostatistics for PhD candidates interested in learning more about the principles of biostatistics.

The course is given in English, unless all participants understand Dutch. Course material is provided in English.

Certificate:

To qualify for the certificate, a participant must attend all lectures and workshops, and complete all assignments satisfactorily. Attendance is registered.

Study load:

12 hours, which is comparable to 0.4 ECTS points.

Number of participants:

Maximum 40 per course.

No charge for registered AMC PhD candidates.

Course Coordinator:

Dr. ir. P.D. Moerland / Department of Clinical Epidemiology / [email protected] / tel. +31 (0)20 - 566 4660.

More information:

From the course coordinator or AMC Graduate School / [email protected] / room E2-172 / tel. +31 (0)20 - 566 4618.

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Welcome to ASAP, the Association of Amsterdam UMC PhD candidates!

Since the foundation of ASAP in 2006 by Amsterdam UMC PhD candidates, our goal has been to enhance your PhD experience, through:

Connection : ASAP organizes a variety of activities throughout the year where you can learn, develop yourself, have fun and meet fellow PhD candidates. Some of our events include the Science Night, Career Event, PhD Thesis Printer’s Fair, career and personal development workshops, as well as Summer and New Year’s Drinks. Check out our upcoming and past events . 

Information : Stay updated through our monthly newsletter. We bring you news about our events, but also employment conditions, rights, and opportunities within Amsterdam UMC. You can sign up to our newsletter here .

Representation : In order to advocate for PhD candidates, ASAP is in contact and involved with several organisations in- and outside of the UMC including the Doctoral School and Research Institutes, AUMC Board of Directors, AMR, AMC, VUmc and the Dutch Network of PhD Candidates (PNN)   at the national level. ASAP is supported by the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School , which provides general information for PhD candidates about the PhD trajectory, supervision and courses.

ASAP membership is free! Sign up for our newsletter , or find us on Instagram ( @asap_amsterdamumc ) and LinkedIn .

Want to be involved? Become an ASAP PhD representative in your department! Find more info on what it entails on this page , and meet our board members on this page .

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Amsterdam UMC is one of eight university medical centres in the Netherlands and one of the leading international centres in the field of academic medicine. As a university medical centre, Amsterdam UMC has three main tasks:

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Offered a PhD position at Amsterdam UMC -- any input/advice/insight much appreciated.

Hello there r/StudyInTheNetherlands !

I was recently offered a PhD position at Amsterdam UMC -- it was an unexpected offer after a casual Skype interview because I have yet to start my master thesis. The offer will be right after finishing my thesis in September/October, and therefore, the original project I applied for might still be available (or not). I was assured that in the span of time from now until then, an exact project might not be determined yet, however, funding is set to be given to the exact research topic.

In anticipation of this, I would like to be well-informed before committing to anything. I am currently doing my master's in Germany, and I am planning to stay in Europe for my PhD in Life Science. I am an American citizen, and therefore, I have decided against applying to any UK universities because of their UK/EU residency requirements for most fundings.

I have read about the salary for 1st year PhD, and I expect to get around 1690euro net (please correct me if I am wrong). I have a couple of questions that I was hoping people could help me out with.

Health Insurance -- Not included in the salary, correct? Do I have to deduct it to my net salary?

30% tax rule -- does not apply to me since I live in Bonn, Germany, the past 14 months (less than 150km from a Dutch border)

Transportation -- are there any public transportation benefits? Is there a city-wide benefit if you are employed in Amsterdam? I am considering living outside of the city if public transportation is cheap.

Good areas to live in Amsterdam? I would like to put a cap on my rent for around 30% of my salary. I am open to a shared flat, or a small studio in desirable areas in or around Amsterdam (of course I know the limitation of my budget).

Municipal Taxes (or any other taxes expenses) -- are there any other taxes or expenses most ex-pats are overlooking? For example, after moving to Germany, I was not aware of the media/TV tax that they have per apartment. Anything like this in the Netherlands? I heard Municipal Tax is one thing.

Savings -- any other money-saving tips? With my US student loans and some financial responsibilities with my family, having something saved is something I would like to achieve.

Any other advice pertaining to doing a PhD in the Netherlands? Any ex-pats who can give me a rundown of the pros and cons?

Any other suggestions/comments/advice with regards to general things.

Finally, I would just like to say that I am very excited about this offer. The group I am joining in is very familiar to me in terms of their research and even professional connections. Also, the country itself is definitely another highlight of the offer. Amsterdam, although, one of my favorite cities, worries me with the cost of living. After living in Germany for a bit, I am certain I would like to live in a busier city, so if my budget only allows me to live outside of the city limits of Amsterdam, I can see that as a downside.

Thank you very much! And I hope you guys are having a great start of the year!

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Office of Doctorate Affairs

All formalities surrounding your doctorate (PhD) are handled by the Office of Doctorate Affairs (in Dutch: Bureau Promotiezaken ). The applicable regulations are laid down in the following downloads:

University of Amsterdam Doctorate Regulations 2020 (Promotiereglement 2020)

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Steps to take to complete your VU PhD degree

All formalities surrounding your doctorate (PhD) are handled by the Office of Doctorate Affairs (in Dutch: Bureau Promotiezaken ). The applicable regulations are laid down in the following download:

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VUmc Office of Doctorate Affairs     

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