DataWorks! Prize Past Winners

2023 DataWorks! Prize Winners

In June 2024, FASEB and the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy hosted the second annual DataWorks! Prize Symposium. The event featured seven speakers from the award-winning projects below who shared their exemplary work in advancing human health through data sharing and reuse. Watch the recordings here. 

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.

2022 DataWorks! Prize Winners

In April 2023, FASEB and the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy hosted the DataWorks! Prize Symposium. Learn about data sharing and reuse best practices from the finalists by viewing symposium Day 1 and Day 2 video recordings.

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.