Do you need funding for your cancer research work with digital twin technology? If so, check out this new funding opportunity from the U.S. National Science Foundation. This opportunity is co-sponsored by NIH’s Office of Data Science Strategy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This program, called “Foundations for Digital Twins as Catalyzers of Biomedical Technological Innovation (FDT-BioTech),” will award $4–5 million (depending on availability of funds) to fund 6–10 projects in digital twin technology in 2024.

As examples, possible projects might focus on:

• developing tools (i.e., mathematical, statistical, and machine learning) and workflows to help build true virtual representations of real-world physiological systems.
• devising new ways of verifying, validating, and assigning uncertainty quantification to assess digital twin technology and to predict how that technology will evolve over time.
• applying existing digital twin technology to other fields and areas of study (i.e., testing new medical technologies) and offering new ways of generalizing and transferring this technology.
• assessing the ethics, security, and privacy of digital twin ecosystems.
• validating and sharing digital twin technology.