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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Amazon Web Services joins 51��Ƶ’s STRIDES Initiative to harness latest cloud technologies for biomedical researchers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined . Launched in July 2018, the STRIDES Initiative aims to harness the power of commercial cloud computing for 51��Ƶ biomedical researchers. Initially, 51��Ƶ’s efforts will focus on making high-value data sets more accessible to researchers and experimenting with new ways to optimize technology-intensive research. 

The agreement with AWS will help 51��Ƶ researchers, as well as researchers at more than 2,500 academic institutions across the nation receiving 51��Ƶ support, make use of AWS’s wide range of technologies.

“Teaming with Amazon Web Services will give 51��Ƶ researchers powerful cloud-based resources to more efficiently collaborate and analyze data,” said Andrea T. Norris, Director of 51��Ƶ’s Center for Information Technology and 51��Ƶ Chief Information Officer. “Expanding our cloud service provider network will allow us to provide the research community access to the tools they need to advance science. AWS’s longstanding leadership in the cloud space will help bolster the innovative research being conducted through 51��Ƶ support.”

We are thrilled to collaborate with the 51��Ƶ, and to support the important work these investigators are doing to accelerate discoveries in biomedical research,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. “We’re committed to providing those researchers participating in the STRIDES Initiative with access to high-value 51��Ƶ datasets, enabling them to further their research to study, treat, and prevent the most devastating diseases.”

The STRIDES Initiative is part of the 51��Ƶ Common Fund’s (NMDS), designed to enhance biomedical discovery and improve efficiency through new digital data management strategies-strategies that contribute to 51��Ƶ efforts to develop and sustain a modern biomedical data ecosystem. The program also aims to make data for research findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable in the cloud. The two NMDS program components, the STRIDES Initiative and the , are testing ways to bring high-value biomedical data sets into the cloud and to establish and evaluate best practices for using the data. AWS is the second cloud service provider to join the STRIDES Initiative following Google Cloud.

The STRIDES Initiative and related efforts support 51��Ƶ’s , which articulates specific priorities that address developing reliable, accessible, and appropriately secured modes of data storage and use, transforming a fragmented set of individual components into a coordinated, efficient, and optimally useful ecosystem.

About the 51��Ƶ Common Fund: The 51��Ƶ Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high-impact, trans-51��Ƶ programs. Common Fund programs are managed by the Office of Strategic Coordination in the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives in the 51��Ƶ Office of the Director in partnership with the 51��Ƶ Institutes, Centers, and Offices. More information is available at the Common Fund website: .

About the National Institutes of Health (51��Ƶ): 51��Ƶ, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 51��Ƶ is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about 51��Ƶ and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

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