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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy hosts a seminar series to highlight exemplars of data sharing and reuse on the second Friday of each month at noon ET. The monthly series highlights researchers who have taken existing data and found clever ways to reuse the data or generate new findings.
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About the Series
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy hosts a seminar series to highlight exemplars of data sharing and reuse on the second Friday of each month at noon ET. The monthly series highlights researchers who have taken existing data and found clever ways to reuse the data or generate new findings. A different NIH institute or center (IC) will also share its data science activities each month.
The seminar is open to the public and registration is required each month. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Allison Hurst at 301-670-4990. Requests should be made at least three days in advance of the event. A recording will be available on this page after each event.
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Upcoming Seminars
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May 8, 2026 Laura Heath, Ph.D., Associate Director in the Alzheimer’s Disease Translational Research group at Sage Bionetworks "Enhancing Team Science through FAIR Data Principles in the AD Knowledge Portal" Register Now
Past Seminars
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April 10, 2026 David N. Kennedy, Ph.D. "From Observation to Knowledge: Harnessing Reproducible Practices to Accelerate Science"
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March 13, 2026 Derek Caetano-Anollés Ph.D. "Sequence Read Archive: Leveraging this petabyte-scale database to drive biomedical discovery"
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February 13, 2026 Andrey Fedorov, Ph.D., Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School "Imaging Data Commons and cancer image sharing in today's AI era"
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January 9, 2026 Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D., Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) "NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science, 2025 – 2030"
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December 12, 2025 Meredith C.B. Adams, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Artificial Intelligence, Translational Neuroscience, and Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine "Building the Future of Clinical Data: From Standardization to AI-Powered Federation"
September 12, 2025 Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D., Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics and director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) "Data Sharing in the Real World"
August 8, 2025 Jay Patel, Ph.D., Clinician-scientist and Director of AI, Data Science, and Informatics at Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry "From Silos to Synergy: Linking Dental and Medical Data to Advance Precision Oral Health"
July 11, 2025 Zsuzsanna Hollander, Ph.D., PMP. Director, Data Science, Genome British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada "Fostering Collaboration with Health Metadata Commons"
June 13, 2025 Fuhai Li, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University "Transformative AI for Deep Mining of Omics and Literature Data"
May 9, 2025 Bernhard Palsson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University "What are iModulons?"
April 11, 2025 William Klimke, Ph.D., Researcher, National Library of Medicine, The National Center for Biotechnology Information Division, NIH "NCBI Pathogen Detection"
March 14, 2025 Kasim Allel, Ph.D., Researcher, University of Oxford, UK Fred Mutisya, M.D., Field Epidemiology Resident, Kenya Patricia Bradford, Ph.D., Microbiology Consultant, Antimicrobial Development Specialists, LLC Rebecca Li, Ph.D., Vivli CEO and Board Member "The VivliAMR DATA Challenge as a Use Case"
December 13, 2024 Johanna Goderre, MPH National Childhood Cancer Registry "Opportunities to Advance Research for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Cancer through Secondary Data Sharing in the New National Childhood Cancer Registry Data Platform"
November 8, 2024 Karthik Gangavarapu, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute "Advancing Outbreak Surveillance: From data integration to actionable insights"
October 11, 2024 Maryellen L. Giger, Ph.D. Vice-Chair of Radiology, A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Radiology The University of Chicago "The Role of MIDRC in Medical Imaging AI"
September 13, 2024 Charles Schmitt, Ph.D. Director of the Office of Data Science, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Senior Scientist, Division of Translational Toxicology, NIEHS Danielle Braun, Ph.D. Principal Research Scientist and Director of Data Science for Environmental and Climate Health, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Climate and Health Outcomes Research Data Systems (CHORDS)" National Insitute of Environmental Health Sciences
August 9, 2024 Robert Schuler, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist, Lead Scientist, University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute Jifan Feng, Ph.D. Research Associate, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC "FaceBase: Empowering Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research Through Data Sharing and Reuse" National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
July 12, 2024 Satra Ghosh, Ph.D. Director, Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative Principal Research Scientist, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Transformative Potential and Challenges of Open Data and Technologies in Neuroscience" National Institute of Mental Health
June 14, 2024 Michael Schatz, Ph.D. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University "BioDIGS: BioDiversity and Informatics for Genomics Scholars" National Human Genome Research Institute
May 10, 2024 Ali Loveys, M.D., ABP-CI Managing Director Healthcare, FI Consulting Fiona Meng Data Scientist, FI Consulting "Laying the Foundation for AI-Ready Data"
April 12, 2024 Andrew Smith Interim Director, ELIXIR, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory– European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) "ELIXIR: Working Together to Accelerate the Understanding of Life" Office of Data Science Strategy
March 8, 2024 Kilian Pohl Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University "Accelerating Neuroscience Discovery Using Shared Software and Data" National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
February 9, 2024 Alex VanHelene, B.S. Clinical Research Assistant, Rhode Island Hospital Michael Rooney, M.D. Radiation Oncology Resident, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Sanjay Mishra, Ph.D. M.S. Research Program Manager, Rhode Island Hospital Coordinator of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium Jeremy L. Warner, M.D., M.S. Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Director of the Research Coordination Center of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium "COVID-19 and Cancer: Catalyzing Collaboration" National Cancer Institute
January 12, 2024 Michelle Hribar, Ph.D., M.S. Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine "AI in Medicine: Improving Access to Literature Data for Knowledge Discovery"
December 8, 2023 Joaquin M. Espinosa, Ph.D. Executive Director, Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome Professor of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus "Being FAIR in the Pan-omics Era: Lessons From the INCLUDE Project"
October 13, 2023 Zhiyong Lu, Ph.D. FACMI Senior Investigator Deputy Director for Literature Search National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI) National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Institutes of Health (NIH) "AI in Medicine: Improving Access to Literature Data for Knowledge Discovery" National Library of Medicine
September 8, 2023 Steven Kleinstein, Ph.D. Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology Co-Director, Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine "Leveraging Shared Data for Systems Immunology: Signatures of Vaccination and Infection" National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
August 11, 2023 Ana Navas-Acien, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia Mailman School of Public Health "Environment, justice, and health: consortia and data sharing needs through a community lens" National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
July 14, 2023 Elizabeth DuPre, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Psychology Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute "Open Science Enables New Neuroscience: A call for community-driven methods development" National Institute of Mental Health
June 9, 2023 Nara Sobreira, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine Associate Professor of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University "PhenoDB, a phenotypic and genotypic data sharing tool" Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
May 12, 2023 Avi Ma’ayan, Ph.D. Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai "The Diabetes Data and Hypothesis Hub (D2H2) and the Playbook Partnership Workflow Builder (PPWB): Bioinformatics Tools for Hypothesis Generation via Data Integration" National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
April 14, 2023 Valerie Schneider, Ph.D. SeqPlus Program Head Deputy Director for Sequence Offerings National Center for Biotechnology Information "The NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR): A new ecosystem facilitating reliable comparative genomics" National Library of Medicine
March 10, 2023 Melissa Haendel, Ph.D., FACMI Marsico Chair in Data Science Chief Research Informatics Officer University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Jakob Seidlitz, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Lifespan Brain Institute, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine "2022 DataWorks! Grand Prize Winners: Innovations in Data Sharing and Reuse" NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
February 10, 2023 Cecile Viboud, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies Fogarty International Center "Big data for surveillance, and the power of collaborative hubs for disease modeling" Fogarty International Center
January 13, 2023 Eric Deutsch, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology "The ProteomeXchange Consortium at 10 Years: Promoting FAIR Data for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics" National Institute of General Medical Sciences
December 9, 2022 Roger Mark, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Tom Pollard, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technical Director, PhysioNet "PhysioNet: A Quarter Century of Open Health Data" National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
October 14, 2022 Julia Lane , Ph.D., Professor, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service "Data Search and Discovery: Building an Amazon.com for Data" Office of Data Science Strategy
September 9, 2022 Caleb Kibet, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Pwani University "Making Open Science Practical in the Global South Through Grassroot Community Building" Fogarty International Center
August 12, 2022 Stephany Duda, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Judith Lewis, Ph.D., Lead Developer, Harmonist Data Toolkit, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering "Harmonist/IeDEA: Designing Consortium Tools for Collaboration and Data Sharing" National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institute of Mental Health
July 8, 2022 Alan Hutson, Ph.D., M.A., Chair of Biostatics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Qian Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center "NCI Funded Coordinating Center Strategies and Tools for Promoting Data, Software and Model Sharing to the Scientific Community" National Cancer Institute
June 10, 2022 Rosa Alcazar, Ph.D., Biology Instructor, Clovis Community College "Creating a Just Genomic Data Science Community by Providing Resources at Community Colleges" National Human Genome Research Institute
May 13, 2022 Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Co-Director, QTIM lab and the Center for Machine Learning at the Martinos Center "Learning from Multi-Institutional Data – A Practical Guide" National Eye Institute
April 8, 2022 Adam R. Ferguson, M.S., Ph.D., Director of Data Science, Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC) Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Principal Investigator, San Francisco VA Healthcare System "Data Sharing and Machine Intelligence for Translational CNS Injury Research" National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
March 11, 2022 Professor Carole Goble, CBE FREng FBCS CITP Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK Frederik Coppens, Ph.D. Head of Node, ELIXIR Belgium IT Manager, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology "RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit Built by the Community for the Community" NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
February 11, 2022 Hunter Moseley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky "Improving Deposition Quality, FAIRness, and Impact of Metabolomics" Common Fund Program Office
December 10, 2021 Casey Greene, Ph.D., University of Colorado School of Medicine "Open Data Can Power AI-based Approaches to Tackle Biomedical Challenges" National Human Genome Research Institute
November 19, 2021 Alexander Ropelewski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center "The Brain Image Library: A Resource for Sharing Microscopy Data" National Institute of Mental Health
October 15, 2021 Karen E. Adolph, Ph.D., New York University "Databrary: Secure and Ethical Sharing of Research Video as Data and Documentation" Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
September 10, 2021 Purvesh Khatri, Ph.D., Stanford University, "Adventures of a Data Parasite: Accelerating Clinical Translation Using Heterogeneity in Public Data" National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
August 13, 2021 Arjun Krishnan, Ph.D., Michigan State University, "Democratize Data-Driven Biology by Tackling Incomplete Data, Unstructured Metadata, and Hidden Curricula" National Institute of General Medical Sciences
July 9, 2021 Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research "There’s No Easy Way Out: Making Data FAIR Requires Better Metadata. Information Technology Can Help." National Library of Medicine
June 11, 2021 Lara Mangravite, Ph.D., Sage Bionetworks “Diversifying the AD Target Pipeline: Data and Tool Sharing to Catalyze the Study of Understudied Drug Targets” National Institute on Aging
May 14, 2021 Deanne M. Taylor, Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute; "Integrating Common Fund Program Datasets for Feature Selection and Machine Learning" NIH Common Fund
Apr. 9, 2021 Yang Chai, D.D.S, Ph.D., University of Southern California "FaceBase--A Data Sharing Resource to Support Dental and Craniofacial Research" National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Mar. 12, 2021 Alisa Manning, Ph.D., Massachussetts General Hospital "Opportunities for NIH Cloud Interoperability Approaches to Improve Outcomes of Pediatric Diseases" National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Feb. 12, 2021 Russ Poldrack, Ph.D., Stanford University “An Open Ecosystem for Data Sharing in Human Neuroscience" National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIH Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series