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NCI Funding Opportunity for Researchers Leveraging Social Network Data to Promote Cancer Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles

Are you using data collection technologies that would work in social networks? NCI has a notice of funding aimed at leveraging these data to develop interventions for promoting better health across the lifespan.

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Consider a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics at NHGRI

NHGRI’s Dr. Andy Baxevanis is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to develop and apply bioinformatic approaches to large-scale genomic data sets, focusing on the evolution of specific protein families and biological pathways that have putative roles in disease causation.

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Get Funding by Predicting Cancer Risks and Related Outcomes with Existing Data

If you analyze secondary data to enhance cancer risk prediction, seize this opportunity! Funding is available to those who want to create innovative data analysis techniques (that use existing data) for a better understanding of cancer risk and related outcomes.

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Using AI to Assess Body Composition Could Help in Cancer Care

In a recent study, NCI-funded researchers applied an artificial intelligence model to lung screening computed tomography images to assess body composition. The team used two key indicators of health—skeletal muscle and fat (adipose) tissue—to predict death from lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other causes.

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Multiple Bioinformatics Scientist Positions Need to Be Filled at NCI!

The Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics wants to fill multiple doctoral bioinformatics scientist positions.

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Search Engine Tool Targets Peptide in Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Data Sets

PepQuery2 is a proteomics tool that enables rapid and targeted identification of both known and novel peptide sequences in proteomics data sets. The tool aims to provide valuable data sets for the broader research community by making public proteomics data more accessible and user-friendly.

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Submit Your Algorithm or Tool to Test Cancer Preventive and Screening Interventions

Data scientists and cancer researchers—you can receive funding to improve cancer screening and other preventive services in populations that experience health disparities.

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Deadline Extended: Submit Your Abstract for the Ninth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop by August 14

CAFCW23 brings together data and computational scientists, cancer biologists, and developers interested in accelerating the progress of computationally and data-driven cancer research and clinical applications.

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NCI SBIR Award Helps Company Use AI to Assess Cancerous Skin Lesions

With the help of an NCI SBIR grant, Enspectra Health, Inc., is blending deep learning algorithms with existing imaging technology to create a new way of obtaining a virtual biopsy.

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New Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Staff Scientist Position at NCI’s Center for Cancer Research

Learn more about this position if you, or someone you know, has expertise in bioinformatics and computer science!

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