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Bioinformatics Training and Education Program

PowerTalk Seminar Series Presents: #DataMatters—Leveraging Big Data for Cancer Discovery and Impact

PowerTalk Seminar Series Presents: #DataMatters—Leveraging Big Data for Cancer Discovery and Impact

 When: Sep. 9th, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am

To Know

Where:
Online Webinar
Organizer:
CBIIT
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About this Class

In this session of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Informatics Institute PowerTalk Seminar Series, CBIIT’s Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan will emphasize how big data’s impact on cancer research has influenced cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and prognosis. Attend this seminar to hear Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan:
  • touch on data-driven research limitations and how the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) has been designed as a data science platform to address said limitations.
  • define the current CRDC repositories and highlight activities/functionalities pertaining to them.
  • highlight how big data has successfully influenced research.
Presenter: Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Ph.D. Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan is the associate director for the Informatics and Data Science Program at NCI CBIIT and a senior investigator for NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.