Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Data Innovation Challenge — Track 1
Pays entities up to $566,665 across three milestones to add shovel-ready cancer data or tools to NCI's CCDI ecosystem.
Track 1 of the Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Data Innovation Challenge is an NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) prize that pays entities up to $566,665 across three milestones to add shovel-ready cancer data or tools to NCI's CCDI ecosystem. Entities, not individuals acting alone, submit a Milestone 1 proposal scored on five weighted criteria worth ten points each: significan…
Track 1 seeks organizations and institutions to enrich NCI's Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) Data Ecosystem with shovel-ready datasets or analytical tools for childhood, adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer research. It targets shovel-ready data or tools that are pre-existing, standardized, cleaned and ready for integration or immediate deployment with minimal further development.
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