Data science is accelerating infectious and immune-mediated disease research. To advance this research and propel biomedical discoveries, NIAID’s data scientists are implementing new technologies, applying computational methods, fostering an interdisciplinary research community, and increasing data access and data sharing.
Data Science is Accelerating NIAID Research
The NIAID Discovery Portal: a unified search engine for infectious and immune-mediated disease datasets
MSystems | December 31, 2025
Infectious, Allergic, and Immune-Mediated Disease Data Resources: a Landscape Overview and Subset Assessment
Journal of Medical Systems | November 22, 2025
NIH Common Fund Announces New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) Competition – Submissions due March 1, 2026
NIH Common Fund | February 9, 2026
Upcoming Data Science Events
MISM Seminar Series: Probing Immune Landscapes Across Scales: Insights from the Fluscape Study
Thu, March 12, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Sequence Read Archive: Leveraging this petabyte-scale database to drive biomedical discovery
Fri, March 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Multi-modal Modeling in Precision Medicine: From Data Imputation to Synthetic Data
Wed, March 18, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Training Opportunities at NIAID and NIH
- AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships: This program is open to those with a doctoral-level science degree or a master’s in engineering, and applications are due November 1.
Data Science Across NIAID
Researchers across NIAID use data science to accelerate and advance our understanding, treatment, and prevention of infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. Learn more about how data science, bioinformatics, computational biology, and other related methods are fueling new discoveries across NIAID's intramural and extramural organizations.
Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies
The Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) coordinates the development and implementation of NIAID’s data science strategy across the Intramural and Extramural Divisions. The overall goal of the office is to enable the efficient use of data and computational methods to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
Connect With Us
Send any questions or feedback to the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies.
General Questions or Comments: datascience@niaid.nih.gov
Questions about Funding Opportunities: datascience-foa@niaid.nih.gov
See team members of the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies.