DataWorks! Prize
The DataWorks! Prize recognizes the impactful role of data reuse on human health. Through the 2024 Prize, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will recognize and reward research teams who propose and execute innovative secondary analysis and data reuse to generate novel scientific findings and create a valuable set of case studies and examples that can be used by the broader research community.
The 2024 DataWorks! Prize is a collaboration with the seven generalist repositories participating in the NIH-funded Generalist Repositories Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) and will focus on best practices in data reuse and secondary analysis that advance human health. Participants will participate in a two-phase challenge. In the first phase, research teams will submit a proposal for a secondary analysis research project that can be completed within a 6-month period and incorporates data from one or more generalist repositories participating in the GREI (more information on GREI); data from other repositories can be combined. In the second phase, selected teams will complete their reuse/secondary analysis research projects and share their findings publicly.
Submission Deadline
The submission deadline of October 23, 2024, has passed, and the evaluation process is now underway. Winners will be announced in Q1 2025, each receiving $25,000 and advancing to the second phase of the prize competition.
Questions
All questions regarding the DataWorks! Prize should be sent to [email protected].
About DataWorks! Prize
FASEB and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are championing a bold vision of data sharing and reuse. 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. The program seeks new and innovative approaches to data sharing and reuse in biological and biomedical research. View past winners.
2023 DataWorks! Prize Winners
Grand Prize $100,000
- Team: CCC19
Project: COVID-19 and Cancer: Catalyzing Collaboration
Description: The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) is a collaboration that collects data about patients with cancer who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Distinguished Achievement Award $50,000
- Team: IPop CATS
Project: GeoPIPE: Reusing Open Data and Letting Data Flow
Description: GeoPipe is pipeline for enriching open data streams with geospatial analyses and natural language processing. - Team: Maryellen Giger’s Team
Project: Sharable Curated, Diverse Medical Images at Scale
Description: MIDRC is a collaboration to create an open curated, diverse commons for medical imaging AI research and a sequestered one for translation.
Exemplary Achievement Award $25,000
- Team: ASAP Discovery Consortium
Project: An Open Pipeline for Antiviral Drug Discovery
Description: To nucleate a global antiviral pipeline to prevent future pandemics, we created a new model for open science accelerated drug discovery. - Team: Karen Yook’s Team
Project: Making Data Useable While Publishing
Description: microPublication Biology re-architects the publishing workflow by including curators to alleviate numerous obstacles in data reusability. - Team: StrokeFAIR
Project: StrokeFAIR: A Public Dataset and Analytical Tools
Description: StrokeFAIR shares FAIR images, metadata, and analytical tools for acute brain stroke, democratizing avenues to perform reproducible reliable research.
Significant Achievement Award $12,500
- Team: Caltech Library
Project: Naming Data Files Descriptively for Easier Reuse
Description: A worksheet for creating file naming conventions to label research data descriptively and consistently.
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