2022 DataWorks! Prize Winners

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 April 2023, FASEB and 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.

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: 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: 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.