Our Oncode office in Utrecht is currently closed and all of us are now working from home. All Oncode team members are available through digital channels. You can contact our business developers, programme managers or other team members via email, videoconference (Skype, Zoom, MS Teams) or by phone. By and large, business continues as usual.

Together with several Oncode Investigators, we are currently looking into the possibilities to contribute with our technologies and equipment to new large-scale COVID-19 screening protocols. We are in contact with the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) about this.

Our latest information is that only essential activities are continued, and in general no new experiments are initiated. The directors/deans of the institutes are responsible for these decisions.

This problem is widely recognized. We are currently working with funders, partner institutes and other stakeholders to find solutions. The statement about the delay of research projects from VSNU, NFU, NWO en ZonMw is available here, and we will certainly inform you once we have more information about this.

We are doing our best to maintain the usual timelines for review and decision making.

Yes, you are. In your quarterly reports, we would like to ask you to inform us also about the (expected) impact of COVID-19 to your project. This is important in order to secure the funding, even for delayed projects.

All our colleagues in the Valorization team are working from home and are fully digitally connected. You can contact your assigned business developer via email, videoconference (Skype, Zoom) or by phone. By and large, business continues as usual.

Each situation needs to be individually assessed. The collaborating companies will need to be contacted and revisions to the collaboration agreements may be required. Please contact your assigned business developer to discuss this.

Oncode is fully capable of advancing collaborations through to final agreements in this new situation. We anticipate that companies may want to suspend discussions until they have more clarity on the impact of COVID on their business. Given the current closure of research labs, the commencement of new projects will be delayed until research operations get back to normal.

If an event is rescheduled, you will receive a new invitation. Following the invitation, you do need to register again, unless specified otherwise.

We are indeed looking at different possibilities to move some of our planned events - like Masterclasses - online. We will keep you informed about this. Please know that we are open to any suggestions and ideas, whether you are interested in sharing your latest research findings or other information with the rest of the Oncode community. Please let us know via communications@oncode.nl and we will contact you as soon as possible.

We would very much like to help you with your ideas. Not just researchers, also technicians and others working in the labs are invited to share their thoughts with us via communications@oncode.nl and we will contact you as soon as possible.

We have rescheduled our Annual Scientific Meeting to 7-8 September. All Oncode CGC researchers have received a new invitation.