The future of oncology is more connected.
OVN is a globally connected oncology community built to help expertise, perspective, and relationships move more openly across the field — so the people shaping oncology can learn from and build on one another's work.
OVN was created from a simple belief — oncology advances faster when its many communities work more openly across disciplines, organizations, and borders.
Mission
To help oncology's many communities connect, learn from one another, and move expertise more openly across the field.
Vision
A future where the global oncology community advances together — where progress is accelerated by stronger relationships and more open exchange.
Purpose
To close the distance between the people and organizations shaping oncology, so the field's best thinking reaches further and benefits more people.
Because progress depends on more than science alone.
Scientific breakthroughs are essential to the future of oncology. But progress depends just as much on how openly insight and experience move across the field — and today, much of it doesn't. Oncology has never been more interconnected, yet many of the people and organizations shaping it still work apart, and some of its most valuable expertise never reaches the people who could build on it.
More than a platform. A connective layer across oncology.
OVN is the connective layer the field has been missing — one place where expertise, perspective, and relationships move more openly across oncology. Through conversations, thought leadership, ecosystem mapping, and shared learning, OVN helps the field's many communities find, reach, and learn from one another. It's cross-functional and globally inclusive by design — not a single discipline, organization type, or stakeholder group.
What began as conversations became something bigger.
OVN grew out of the relationships and conversations that formed around the Voices of Oncology book and the community it brought together. Across those conversations, one theme surfaced again and again: leaders across science, medicine, advocacy, and industry kept naming the same gap — the field's best thinking wasn't reaching the people who needed it. OVN was created to close that gap.
Built for the people shaping the future of oncology.
Meaningful progress depends on every part of oncology working in closer concert. OVN brings those communities into one connected environment.
Scientific & Clinical Community
Researchers, translational science, diagnostics, biomarkers, clinical development, healthcare providers, pharmacy, nursing, multidisciplinary care teams, and scientific leadership.
Industry & Innovation Community
Pharma, biotech, Medical Affairs, regulatory, safety, commercial, market access, HEOR, manufacturing, data and AI, investors, Innovation Partners, and cross-functional oncology leaders.
Patient & Advocacy Community
Patients, caregivers, advocates, advocacy organizations, healthcare systems, support communities, and emerging voices helping shape the future of cancer care.
Every part of oncology has expertise worth sharing. OVN exists to help those voices reach further and connect more easily across the field.
Stronger connection creates stronger oncology.
The future of oncology will be shaped not only by breakthrough science, but by how well the field shares what it learns.
Progress accelerates when:
- expertise is easier to reach
- perspectives cross-pollinate
- lessons are shared openly
- more voices join the conversation
Because when oncology works as one connected field, the possibilities grow for everyone.
Help shape a more connected, more collaborative oncology.
Whether you work in healthcare, research, advocacy, patient communities, industry, or innovation, OVN was created to bring people, expertise, and ideas closer together across oncology. That future is being built now — and OVN exists to help build it, together.