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Comment on NIH’s Draft Public Access Policy by August 19

NIH is soliciting comments on a new draft of the Public Access Policy which will remove the 12-month embargo period for NIH-funded manuscripts and data.

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Predicting Cancer Treatment Responses with AI Tool PERCEPTION

Discover a new AI-driven tool that uses single-cell RNA data to help predict patient responses to cancer treatments.

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New Resource on Informed Consent Language for Digital Health Studies

See the digital health technologies informed consent resource that your Request for Information responses helped create!

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New Notebook Demonstrates Machine Learning in Google BigQuery Using Updated Mitelman Database

In the “Mitelman Gene Fusions in TCGA” notebook, ISB Cancer Gateway in the Cloud (an NCI Cloud Resource) identified the most common gene fusions in prostate adenocarcinoma, demonstrating machine learning in Google BigQuery.

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Newly Upgraded Index of Studies Helps Catalog NCI Research Programs

Are you curious about NCI’s current research? Use NCI’s newly updated Index of Studies to learn about the projects underway, including focus areas and cancer types.

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Notice of Special Interest Promoting Data Reuse for Health Research

Explore this NCI-supported solicitation for revision applications focusing on data reuse and secondary data analysis!

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Participate in the NCI Medical Image De-Identification Benchmark Challenge at MICCAI 2024

Explore this challenge if you’re a software tool developer interested in assessing how well your tool de-identifies medical images.

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Get Funded to Manage Your Early-Stage or Established Biomedical Data Repository and Knowledgebase

NIH wants to help you advance biomedical research by supporting your data resource. Learn more about these funding opportunities and apply for financial support by September 25, 2024!

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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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