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NCI Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the National Cancer Act

In 1971, the National Cancer Act was signed into law, creating NCI. Now, 50 years later, NCI celebrates the progress that has been made and the promise of what’s to come.

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Smita Hastak Elected as HL7 Co-chair of Biomedical Research & Regulation Work Group

Ms. Smita Hastak, M.S., a senior analyst supporting NCI CBIIT, has been elected co-chair of Biomedical Research & Regulation at Health Level Seven International (HL7), an organization that provides standards for the exchange of health information and data.

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Data Scientists: Applications Due January 4, 2021, for the NCI Research Specialist (R50) Award

The NCI R50 Award encourages the development of stable research career opportunities for exceptional scientists who want to pursue research within the context of an existing cancer research program, but not serve as independent investigators.

Cancer Data Aggregator Awarded

NCI Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) Awarded to Consortium

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) awarded a contract to develop the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) to a consortium led by the Broad Institute, Institute for Systems Biology, Seven Bridges Genomics, and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), Inc. The CDA is a query engine that will help researchers to find, sort, and pull together data from across the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC), NCI Data Coordinating Centers (DCC), and other repositories.

National Cancer Institute Imaging Data Commons Poster won a Certificate of Merit at RSNA19. This poster outlines the components and details of the Imaging Data Commons: it's place within the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC), the IDC, IDC Minimum Value Product, Guiding Principles for the Development, Standardization (DICOM), IDC vs. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), the tentative implementation timeline, the Cloud Platform (Google Cloud), Image Visualization (OHIF), and Use Cases.

NCI CRDC Imaging Data Commons Team Wins Certificate of Merit Award for Educational Poster Exhibit at RSNA 2019

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons’ (CRDC) Imaging Data Commons (IDC) team received a Certificate of Merit award for its educational poster exhibit at the 105th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

SC19 Winners of Best Paper for modeling cancer-causing protein interactions. Paper is titled: "Massively Parallel Infrastructure for Adaptive Multiscale Simulations: Modeling RAS Initiation Pathway for Cancer."

JDACS4C Pilot 2 Team Wins Best Paper at SC19

“Massively Parallel Infrastructure for Adaptive Multiscale Simulations: Modeling RAS Initiation Pathway for Cancer” was selected as best paper at SC19, the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

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