DataWorks! Prize
FASEB and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are championing a bold vision of data sharing and reuse. The 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.
A panel of NIH officials selected 11 research teams as the inaugural winners of the 2022 DataWorks! Prize. In addition to the prizes, winners will appear in an upcoming DataWorks! Prize Symposium on April 25 and April 26. Register now.
2022 DataWorks! Prize Winners
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.
A Snapshot of the 2022 DataWorks! Prize

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