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NCI Funding Helps Bring New AI-Aided Device for Glioblastoma to Market

Thanks to funding from NCI’s Small Business Innovation Research program, a new tool recently received FDA clearance. See how this cyber device could help you with artificial intelligence (AI)-guided glioblastoma segmentation.

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NCI-Funded Researchers Develop Tool for Deciphering Telomeres

Telomeres have confounded researchers for decades, making it difficult to understand their full impact on diseases like cancer. See how this new digital telomere measurement tool is helping researchers gain insight into these elusive structures.

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CCDI Workshop Addresses the Needs of Its Rare Cancer Initiative

Learn about the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative’s national strategy for studying children, adolescents, and young adults with very rare cancers. The Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Rare Cancer Initiative supplies researchers (like you) the data requirements for collecting data from study participants.

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GammaGateR Helps Decipher Imaging Data

Looking for an easier way to sort and quantify key cellular information from immunofluorescent images? NCI-funded researchers have a new semi-automated tool, called “GammaGateR,” that may help.

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Register for the NCI Genomic Data Commons Analysis Tool Challenge

Are you a tool developer who wants to apply your skills to support cancer research? Consider registering for this challenge where you’ll develop an analysis tool to integrate with NCI’s Genomic Data Commons.

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NCI’s Clinical and Translational Data Commons Has Launched!

Explore the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons’s latest portal to find clinical and translational data from NCI-funded studies!

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$500K in Cash Prizes Available in 2024 DataWorks! Challenge

This two-phase challenge invites you and your team to propose and execute a secondary analysis/data reuse project to better understand the development and progression of diseases, such as cancer. Submit your idea by October 23, 2024.

Multimodal image of cancer tumor cells shows how the Orion tool is able to combine two types of images—hematoxylin and eosin and immunofluorescence—in a single slide.

NCI-Funded Tool Combines Imaging Modalities to Aid Pathologists and Machine Learning (ML)

An NCI-funded technology blends specific molecular markers along with traditional morphological features in the same cells and in one digital slide. This tool could someday help pathologists and ML models better predict cancer treatment response and outcomes.

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Solve Challenges with Spatial Omics Data at the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) Data Jamboree 2024

Are you interested in using spatial omics and single-cell approaches in your cancer research? Participate in the HTAN Data Jamboree, where you'll work with a team to build unique solutions that solve problems in cancer research. Submit your application by September 6.

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Feedback Needed on USCDI+ Cancer Registry Data Element List

Help define the data standards that will make data in the USCDI+ Cancer Registry interoperable with data collected for clinicals, public health, and research. Submit your feedback by Monday, September 23, 2024.

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