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NCI Data Science at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting

Are you planning to attend this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Make sure to add these NCI-affiliated data science activities to your schedule!

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COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium Wins the NIH/FASEB DataWorks! Prize Challenge

Learn more about the team that won the 2023 DataWorks! Challenge Grand Prize. The winners crowdsourced data gathering and used a common, interoperable platform to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on people with a current or past history of cancer.

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New Platform for Prioritizing Genetic Variants Underlying Cancer Risk

Are you having trouble prioritizing which genetic variants to study in your cancer research? There’s a new platform, called FORGEdb, that can help you pinpoint promising variants and target genes.

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CBIIT’s Hiring—Apply Today to be a Clinical Research Informatics Leader

Are you skilled in conceptualizing, developing, and managing projects in clinical research informatics? Apply today to work as a clinical research informatics specialist at NCI’s CBIIT.

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CBIIT Seeks an Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Federated Learning

Are you skilled in artificial intelligence and federated learning approaches? Come work here at NCI’s CBIIT as a bioinformatics specialist! Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Apply today!

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Advance Your Skills in AI and GitHub Through These ITCR Training Network Courses

Looking to become more familiar with artificial intelligence and GitHub for your data science needs? Check out these two courses from the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Training Network.

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Become a Senior Data Science Strategist at NIH’s All of Us Research Program

The program’s Office of Data and Analytics is looking for a qualified candidate to oversee data strategy, governance, quality, and analytics. If you have a passion for data science and cohort studies, apply before March 1, 2024!

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cBioPortal Updates Offer Joint Analysis of Genetic and Clinical Data

Interested in blending clinical and genetic data? Upgrades in cBioPortal can help you work with these very different data types to better understand cancer and how it progresses over time.

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Give Your Input on the Updated NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science

What do you think of the updated Strategic Plan for Data Science from NIH? Respond to this Request for Information by March 15!

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Up to $50k in Prizes for AI-Readiness Challenge on NCI Data

Participate in the upcoming challenge to assess NCI Cancer Research Data Commons' compatibility with AI/ML technologies.

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