Find virtual and in-person data science events, webinars, and trainings from NIAID and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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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, 2026The 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, 2026J. 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, 2026Argonne 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.
Past Events
AI Codeathon for Infectious Disease Research
November 12 - 14, 2025Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Third Annual Data Sharing Symposium: How Data Advances the Impact of Cancer Research Day 2
October 1, 2025NCI Shady Grove Campus, 9609 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD 20850
Third Annual Data Sharing Symposium: How Data Advances the Impact of Cancer Research Day 1
September 30, 2025NCI Shady Grove Campus, 9609 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD 20850
Real-World Clinical Informatics: Examining the Path from Discovery to Impact
August 29, 2025Virtual