NIH Awards $9M in Funding to Support Data Commons Pilot Phase

Nov 06, 2017

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health announced today that it has awarded $9 million in fiscal 2017 to fund 12 projects kicking off the initial phase of an effort to build a cloud-based platform for storing, sharing, accessing, and computing biomedical data, and other digital objects such as analytical tools.

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