NIH GRANT FOR CANCER GENOMICS RESEARCH TOOL  

October 2024

Sean Davis, MD, PhD, associate director of informatics and data science at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, is part of a team that received a $5.2 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue funding cancer genomics research. 

Led by Davis and Levi Waldron, PhD, at the City University of New York, the project aims to enhance and expand the Bioconductor ecosystem, a cornerstone resource for statistical analysis and data management in cancer genomics research. Bioconductor gives researchers advanced tools and resources for analyzing and understanding cancer genomics data, potentially accelerating discoveries that could improve cancer diagnostics and treatments. 

The grant will fund collaborative efforts among the City University of New York, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the CU School of Medicine, and the University of Padova in Italy.  

Bioconductor has been funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Information Technology for Cancer Research program for the past 10 years as an open-source project focused on the analysis and comprehension of -omics data.