DataWorks! Prize

FASEB and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are championing a bold vision of data sharing and reuse. The DataWorks! Prize fuels this vision with an annual challenge that showcases the benefits of research data management while recognizing and rewarding teams whose research demonstrates the power of data sharing or reuse practices to advance scientific discovery and human health. 

A panel of NIH officials selected 11 research teams as the inaugural winners of the 2022 DataWorks! Prize. 

With community engagement as a key part of the DataWorks! Prize, FASEB recognized two teams with People’s Choice awards based on crowd voting. More than 2,150 votes were cast from the community. 

2022 DataWorks! Prize Winners

Grand Prize $100,000

• Team: BrainChart
  Project: Brain Charts for the Human Lifespan
  Description: The BrainChart team combined MRI data from over 100,000 people to create and share growth charts of the human brain across the lifespan.

• Team: National Covid Cohort Collaborative
  Project: Democratizing Access to Clinical Data
  Description: The National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is a diverse multidisciplinary community dedicated to collaborative analytics at scale.

Distinguished Achievement Award $50,000

• Team: Monarch Initiative
  Project: Using All Organisms for Diagnostics and Discovery
  Description: The Monarch Initiative is an integrative data and analytics platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species, bridging basic and applied research with semantics.

• Team: PhysioNet Challenges
  Project: The PhysioNet Challenges Data Science Competitions
  Description: The PhysioNet Challenges are annual data science competitions that ask what we can learn from data to improve health and healthcare.

• Team: NeuroMorpho.Org
  Project: A Public Repository of Neuronal and Glial Morphology
  Description: NeuroMorpho.Org is an open-access database of 3D neural reconstructions continuously updated with contributions from approximately 1,000 labs worldwide.

• Team: The GenomeArk
  Project: The GenomeArk: High-quality Reference Genomes
  Description: The GenomeArk is the Vertebrate Genomes Project’s open-access repository of high-quality genome assembly data for the scientific community.

Achievement Award $25,000

• Team: Allen Institute for Brain Science
  Project: The Cell Type Knowledge Explorer
  Description: The Cell Type Knowledge Explorer is a publicly accessible atlas for navigating multimodal cell type data of the mammalian brain.

Achievement Award $12,500

• Team: Krishnan Lab
  Project: Removing Metadata Barriers to Promote Data Reuse
  Description: The Krishnan Lab develops methods that address unstructured metadata and missing metadata that are barriers to discovering and reusing public omics data.

• Team: VEuPathDB
  Project: VEuPathDB: New Discoveries Through Data Reuse
  Description: VEuPathDB makes data reusable and accessible to scientists through streamlined integration pipelines and a powerful search strategy system.

• Team: MIT Critical Data
  Project: Improving Health Research Diversity with MIMIC (updated title)
  Description: MIT Critical Data builds communities across disciplines to derive knowledge from health records to understand health and disease better.

• Team: Vascular Model Repository
  Project: The Vascular Model Repository Open-data Model
  Description: The Vascular Model Repository is a dataset of cardiovascular models fostering advances in computational mechanics and AI research.

People's Choice Awards

• Team: The GenomeArk
  Project: The GenomeArk: High-quality Reference Genomes
  Description: The GenomeArk is the Vertebrate Genomes Project’s open-access repository of high-quality genome assembly data for the scientific community. 

• Team: VEuPathDB
  Project: VEuPathDB: New Discoveries Through Data Reuse
  Description: VEuPathDB makes data reusable and accessible to scientists through streamlined integration pipelines and a powerful search strategy system.

A Snapshot of the 2022 DataWorks! Prize