Data Science Events

Find virtual and in-person data science events, webinars, and trainings from NIAID and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Hosting a data science event? Feature your event on this page by emailing the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies.

Upcoming Events

The NIAID Data Science Webinar Series: Introduction to Identifiers

Wed, February 25, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Virtual

NIAID’s Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) and GO FAIR US (GFU) present an introduction to PIDs and how they make research data easier to find, share, cite, and reuse

Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge Application Deadline

Sun, March 1, 2026

The NIH Common Fund is teaming up with NASA's Tournament Lab to launch the Reduction to Practice Prize. This competition is seeking New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) solutions, including computational and in-silico approaches, with a $7,000,000 prize to be shared among winners.

BV-BRC Workshop - San Diego

Mon, March 2 - Fri, March 6, 2026
J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California

NIAID-funded Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) will host a workshop showing researchers how to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data with BV-BRC tools. Follow the link to learn more and register.

Foundation Models for Cancer Workshop

Tue, March 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m. - Thu, March 26, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Virtual

National Cancer Institute hosts a workshop on foundational models (advanced AI models) and applying them to clinical data.

BV-BRC Workshop - Chicago

Mon, June 1 - Fri, June 5, 2026
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois

NIAID-funded Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) will host a workshop showing researchers how to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data with BV-BRC tools. Follow the link to learn more and register.

Seminar Series and Recurring Events

NCI ODS Data Jamboree Seminar Series

The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Data Sharing is hosting a monthly webinar series for presentations from project teams after their inaugural data jamboree in September 2025. Projects included enhancing data interoperability, evaluating data quality and AI-readiness, integrating and analyzing data, and developing educational materials. 

Tools for Tomorrow NIAID BRCs Webinar Series

The NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers provide sustainable, data-driven platforms, portable computational tools, and interoperability standards — all designed to serve the infectious diseases research community. Register through the link for an invitation to monthly webinars across the BRCs.

ScHARe Think-a-Thons

Hosted monthly by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Think-a-Thons are open to researchers at any level to learn about and discuss bias mitigation in artificial intelligence and health research. Follow the link to learn more about upcoming meetings and view past meeting recordings.

The Foundations of Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series

Speakers from a variety of biomedical data science disciplines present at this series weekly each Friday at noon ET. Publicly available recordings of past seminars can also be found at this link.

Bridge2AI Educational Materials

These materials include seminar series, blogs, and other educational resources from the NIH-funded Bridge2AI Consortium. Bridge2AI brings together experts across biomedical and behavioral research to develop FAIR datasets and ethical AI/ML practices.

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