FASEB and NIH Announce 2023 DataWorks! Prize Recipients

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

FASEB and the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today the recipients of this year’s FASEB DataWorks! Prize. The annual prize showcases teams’ exemplary achievements in biological and biomedical research that were made possible through data management and sharing.

Sharing and reusing scientific data openly has tremendous potential to catalyze new scientific discoveries. Exemplary data management and sharing requires innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration to maximize impact. 

DataWorks! Prize, a component of FASEB DataWorks!, is a partnership between FASEB and NIH to incentivize effective practices and increase community engagement around data sharing and reuse. A panel of NIH officials selected seven research teams as winners. The winning teams share a prize purse of almost $300,000 and will participate in a symposium to share their winning projects.

2023 DataWorks! Prize Winners

Grand Prize: $100,000

• Team: CCC19
  Project: COVID-19 and Cancer: Catalyzing Collaboration 
  Team Captain: Alexander VanHelene
  Institution/Organization: Lifespan Health 

Distinguished Achievement Awards: $50,000

• Team: Ipop Cats
  Project: GeoPipe: Reusing Open Data and Letting Data Flow
  Team Captain: Daniel Harris
  Institution/Organization: University of Kentucky
• Team: Maryellen Giger’s Team
  Project: Sharable Curated, Diverse Medical Images at Scale
  Team Captain: Maryellen Giger
  Institution/Organization: MIDRC / University of Chicago  

Exemplary Achievement Award: $25,000

• Team: ASAP Discovery Consortium
  Project: An Open Pipeline for Antiviral Drug Discovery
  Team Captain: John Chodera  
  Institution/Organization: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• Team: Karen Yook’s Team
  Project: Making Data Useable While Publishing
  Team Captain: Karen Yook
  Institution/Organization: Micropublication.org 

• Team: StrokeFAIR
  Project: StrokeFAIR: A Public Dataset and Analytical Tools
  Team Captain: Andreia Vanconcellos Faria 
  Institution/Organization: John Hopkins University   

Significant Achievement Awards: $12,500

• Team: Caltech Library
  Project: Naming Data Files Descriptively for Easier Reuse
  Team Captain: Kristen Briney  
  Institution/Organization: CalTech Library