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Grant Opportunities to Develop Informatics Technology for Cancer Control and Population Sciences

See if any of the available grants highlighted in this Notice of Special Interest are a good fit for your data science work.

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Apply to be the Next Senior Biostatistician at NCI’s Center for Cancer Research

Learn more about this job opportunity to head the Biostatistics and Data Management Section of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research. The first review of applications will begin on March 13, 2023.

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New Deep Learning System Proves Accurate in Predicting Suspected Breast Cancer

A new, NCI-funded, deep learning technology performed on par with radiologists in interpreting breast cancer images. This tool could help refine diagnosis to reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies.

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New Deep Learning Tool Accurately Classifies Tumor Types

NCI-DOE Collaboration researchers, using data from the Genomic Data Commons, have developed TULIP: a deep learning tool for classifying human RNA-seq-based tumor types.

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SPHINKS: AI Algorithm Uses Kinase Activity to Tailor Glioblastoma Treatment

NCI-funded researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm that’s helping identify the underlying biological causes of glioblastoma.

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New Contract Opportunity to Maintain the CPTAC Assay Portal and Integrate New Data

Support the maintenance and enhancements of the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) Assay Portal, including the assay characterization data within it, through a new contract opportunity. Your proposal is due March 28, 2023.

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NCI Seeks Feedback on Data Sharing Processes

Working with cancer data? NCI’s Office of Data Sharing invites you to give feedback on the processes you use to manage and share data.

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New Contract Opportunity to Obtain Medical Image Segmentations

NCI is seeking support for developing machine-generated segmentations of images in the radiology collections of the Imaging Data Commons (IDC). Submit your proposals by March 10, 2023.

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NCI’s Center for Cancer Research is Hiring a Staff Scientist with Bioinformatics Expertise—Apply by February 13, 2023

A new job opportunity is available supporting the Center for Cancer Research’s HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch. The ideal candidate will possess bioinformatics and computer science experience.

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Apply for Grants to Support Novel and Standard Tools for Analyzing All of Us Program Data

NIH and NCI are participating in two funding opportunities to support the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench. These grants will help support analysis of the data for this program to advance research in cancer risk, early detection, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, cancer control, epidemiology, and health disparities.

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