NIH STRIDES Seminar provides overview of strategic plan for data science

The WVU Health Sciences community is invited to join NIH STRIDES Initiative Client Services Team Lead Todd Reilly, PhD, for a presentation on Thursday, March 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Health Sciences Center North 3129 and via Zoom. This presentation is hosted by the WVU Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and the Health Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend in person. Please register if you plan to attend via Zoom.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative is one of many NIH-wide efforts to implement the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science, which provides a roadmap for modernizing the NIH-funded biomedical data science ecosystem. Data generated via biomedical research continues to outpace the ability to process, store and analyze in many local environments. STRIDES allows NIH to explore the use of cloud environments to streamline NIH data use by partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. NIH’s STRIDES Initiative aims to modernize biomedical research by reducing economic and process barriers in utilizing commercial cloud services. These partnerships enable access to rich datasets and advanced computational infrastructure, tools, training and related services. By leveraging the STRIDES Initiative, NIH and NIH-funded institutions can begin to create a robust, interconnected ecosystem that breaks down silos related to generating, analyzing and sharing research data.