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. Judging will conclude on December 30, 2024, at which time we will announce the 10 winning teams, 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


Distinguished Achievement Award $50,000


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

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