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Get Rewarded by Sending Your “Recipe” for Data Sharing or Reuse in Biomedical Research

The DataWorks! Prize recognizes and rewards exceptional researchers for their work in biological and biomedical data practices. Submit your data sharing/reuse best practice “recipes” by July 24, 2024!

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Take on Cancer's Toughest Challenges with These 3 Data Science-Oriented Funding Opportunities

Submit your expression of interest to transform cancer research with help from data science tools and methodologies. “Cancer Grand Challenges,” a global initiative founded by NCI and Cancer Research UK, announced new research challenges to address how we prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.

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NCI-Funded Challenge Advances Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Detection

Discover how the algorithms produced in this challenge performed in detecting breast cancer.

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Submit Your Data Science Ideas for the 2023 Cancer Grand Challenges

Share your thoughts on how data science can impact cancer’s toughest challenges, and your idea could transform into a team-operated, funded project for resolving that challenge! The deadline is November 28, 2022.

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Compete in the MICCAI 2022 Federated Learning Breast Density Challenge

Data scientists, informaticists, and medical physicists are invited to develop the best, most generalizable models, algorithms, and approaches for breast density estimation using image-based distributed or federated learning.

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Pre-Register for FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research Indel Calling from Oncopanel Sequencing Data Challenge

Help the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research and the precisionFDA optimize data processing pipelines for identifying indels (i.e., insertions/deletions in a genome) in oncopanel sequencing datasets by participating in a sequencing data challenge. Pre-register for the “Indel Calling from Oncopanel Sequencing Data Challenge” before May 2, 2022! Selected participants will be publicly recognized and invited to contribute to a scientific manuscript and a “Top Performer Webinar” that will be open to the public.

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NCI To Host 5-day Innovation Lab on Data Visualization Strategies: Apply by September 8

Interested in developing new, creative data visualization techniques to facilitate cancer research? If so, apply by Wednesday, September 8, to participate in NCI’s next DataViz + Cancer Innovation Lab!

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Health Disparities Codeathon: Participant Applications Due June 7

On June 21–24, 2021, in partnership with the Howard University Research Centers for Minority Institutions Program, the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy is hosting a virtual codeathon for addressing health disparities. Applications to participate are due Monday, June 7, 2021.

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DataViz + Cancer Innovation Lab Seeks to Design a Better Patient Experience: Apply by June 8

Apply by June 8 to participate in NCI’s DataViz + Cancer Innovation Lab and join a diverse team in the search for creative ways to build a patient-centered clinical experience.

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Health Disparities Codeathon: Project Proposals Due April 26

The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, in partnership with the Howard University Research Centers for Minority Institutions Program, is hosting a virtual codeathon June 21–24, 2021, for addressing health disparities. Applications are due Monday, April 26, 2021.

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