GRADUATE SCHOOL

OOA is a joint graduate school of the Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam and Netherlands Cancer Institute, VU and UvA dedicated to the training of more than 1000 PhD students working in the field of Oncology... On Thursday June 22nd , Over 100 PhD candidates from Amsterdam with a primary focus on oncology research attended the PhD day. This day was organized by the OOA PhD council. We kicked off the PhD day with an interactive keynote workshop by Artesc, where the attendees learned about the "The art of presenting science". After this enthusiastic workshop, the candidates could choose from a variety of interesting workshops, focusing on skills such as presenting and intercultural communication, data visualization and graphical design, and leadership. The scientific program ended on a high note with a keynote presentation by science integrity consultant Elizabeth Bik. She took the audience on an interesting journey through examples of visually manipulated data and discussed various..