PowerTalk Seminar Series Presents: #DataMatters—Leveraging Big Data for Cancer Discovery and Impact

In this session of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Informatics Institute PowerTalk Seminar Series, CBIIT’s Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan will emphasize how big data’s impact on cancer research has influenced cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and prognosis.

Attend this seminar to hear Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan:

• touch on data-driven research limitations and how the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) has been designed as a data science platform to address said limitations.
• define the current CRDC repositories and highlight activities/functionalities pertaining to them.
• highlight how big data has successfully influenced research.