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FALCON 
Oncology Research Network

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SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

12:15

Coffee and registration

    

 

13:00

Oncology today

Annelies Verbiest

13:20

ESMO roadmap 2030

Miriam Koopman

13:35

What do we expect from cancer data, and where do they fall short?

Sajan Khosla
Peter De Jaeger
Nick Marly
Elad Sharon
Henar Hevia
Leana Bellanca
Miriam Koopman

15:15

Coffee break

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15:45

Why real-world evidence does not work in cancer and what must change

Christian Reich

16:00

FALCON: a global high-quality cancer evidence network

Asieh Golozar

16:15

FALCON-Lung: lessons from the largest mNSCLC real-world study to date

Kimmo Porkka

16:30

Bladder cancer: revolution, hope and blind spots

Christof Vulsteke

16:45

FALCON-Bladder: pioneering a new way to generate guideline-relevant RWE

Asieh Golozar

17:05

Meet the FALCON data partners

   

17:15

Closing remarks & network drink

    

SPEAKERS

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ASIEH

GOLOZAR

MD, PhD, MHS, MPH

OHDSI & Nemesis Health,

USA

Founder and CEO of Nemesis Health; physician-epidemiologist and biostatistician focused on large-scale, transparent oncology evidence generation. Her work bridges OHDSI methods, federated cancer networks and the practical use of real-world data to answer clinical questions that trials cannot cover alone.

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CHRISTIAN

REICH

MD, PhD

OHDSI & Nemesis Health,

Germany/USA

Chief Science Officer of Nemesis Health and a principal investigator in OHDSI. He is one of the architects behind the OMOP common data model and standardized vocabularies that make reproducible, large-scale observational research possible across institutions.

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KIMMO

PORKKA

MD, PhD

University of Helsinki & HUS,

Finland

Professor of personalised cancer medicine at the University of Helsinki and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center. His work connects precision oncology, clinical practice and health-data infrastructure; within FALCON, he brings lessons from large-scale metastatic lung cancer evidence generation.

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ANNELIES

VERBIEST

MD, PhD

UZA, OHDSI Belgium & BSMO,

Belgium

Medical oncologist at Antwerp University Hospital with a focus on trustworthy real-world evidence to close clinical knowledge gaps. She leads the UZA Data Access Committee, contributes to FALCON, DARWIN EU and FHIN, and helps connect clinical, data-science and oncology communities through OHDSI Belgium and the BSMO Digital Oncology task force.

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PETER

DE JEAGER

PhD

AZ Delta & FHIN,

Belgium

Director Data & Innovation at AZ Delta and founder/director of the Federated Health Innovation Network. He leads RADar, the hospital innovation centre, and works on predictive AI, data-driven care pathways and federated collaboration models for healthcare data reuse.

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NICK

MARLY

PhD

Cabinet of Frank Vandenbroucke,

Belgium

Engineer and mathematician with more than 20 years of experience in digitisation of the social and public health sector. Since 2020, he has advised the Belgian Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health on digital health, health data, privacy, the European Health Data Space and AI legislation.

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ELAD

SHARON

MD, MPH

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, U

SA

Medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, where he serves as Clinical and Translational Director of the Immunotherapy Toxicity Program. His work spans cancer drug development, immunotherapy and the complementary role of evidence from clinical practice.

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HENAR

HEVIA

PhD

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine,

Spain

Senior Director and EMEA Therapeutic Area Lead for Oncology at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. She brings an industry perspective on how targeted therapies, precision medicine and real-world evidence can improve bladder cancer outcomes and patient-centred decision-making.

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LEANA

BELLANCA

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AstraZeneca,

United Kingdom

Health economics and payer evidence lead. She brings a payer and market-access perspective to the discussion: which real-world evidence is convincing enough to influence reimbursement, policy, adoption and equitable access to innovation.

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CHRISTOF

VULSTEKE

MD, PhD

AZ Maria Middelares & University of Antwerp,

Belgium

Head of the Integrated Cancer Center Ghent and guest professor at the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on urogenital and gynaecological malignancies, with a strong track record in clinical and translational oncology, including practice-changing bladder cancer trials.

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MIRIAM

KOOPMAN

MD, PhD

UMC Utrecht & ESMO,

Netherlands

Medical Director of Oncology within UMC Utrecht and chair of the ESMO taskforce on Real World Data and Digital Health. Founder and chair of the Dutch Prospective Colorectal Cancer Cohort (PLCRC), which includes >24,000 patients and >50 ongoing substudies.

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SAJAN

KHOSLA

PhD

AstraZeneca,

United Kingdom

Executive Director and Global Head of Late Data Science and Real World Evidence at AstraZeneca. He leads multidisciplinary teams using real-world data, advanced analytics, machine learning and AI to generate evidence for clinical development, regulatory decision-making and patient access.

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