2025 - Cancer Data Science Pulse Blog

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Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Whole-Body Images to Reveal Rare Cancers

July 15, 2025

Learn how AI-assisted whole-body imaging may someday help not only in detecting cancer, but also in planning, tracking, and managing more precise treatments.

Many Hands Make Light Work: Your Role on a Cancer Data Science Research Team

By Daoud Meerzaman, Ph.D., Tanna Nelson, Ph.D., R.N., NI-BC, Granger Sutton, Ph.D.
June 17, 2025

A multidisciplinary team consists of many different responsibilities. Where do you fit in?

Spyglass hovers over a stream of circles containing illustrated headshots; signifies the idea of matching people to specific cancer treatments.

Building Infrastructure that Works—Lessons Learned from Project MATCH

By Umit Topaloglu, Ph.D., Jacob Gross, Nicholas Renzette, Ph.D.
April 22, 2025

NCI’s Project MATCH initiative helped pioneer the concept that people in clinical trials could be matched (based on their genetic makeup) to medications specifically tailored to their needs and situations.

3d illustration of T cells attacking cancer cells. Shows a blue-colored cancer cell with two smaller red cells attached.

NCI’s IMMUNOtron—The Making of a Machine Learning (ML) Robotics Tool

By Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Ph.D., Sooraj Achar
April 7, 2025

ML models feed on large amounts of quality data, which can be scarce. Meet IMMUNOtron, a ML-robotic platform that’s helping NCI researchers generate and process high-quality data to better understand the immune system’s response to cancer.

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Using the Cloud for Cancer Research—Overcoming Common Barriers

By Zhaoyi Chen, Ph.D.
March 12, 2025

Learn tips for overcoming obstacles using the cloud, along with an example of how you can make the cloud work for you.

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Whose Data Is It, Anyway?

By Joe Flores-Toro, Ph.D., Mousumi Ghosh, Ph.D.
February 14, 2025

The Office of Data Sharing discusses data ownership and data sharing resources for supporting research.

Artists conceptualization of a digital twin. Shows the mirrored image of two heads. The only difference is one head is filled in with dots whereas the second head has spaces missing.

Digital Twins for Cancer—Not If, But When, How, and Why?

By Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D.
January 6, 2025

Creating a digital twin for cancer is a daunting task, but NCI’s Dr. Eric Stahlberg says we already have many elements in place to serve as a digital twin foundation. All that’s needed now is a shift in thinking and a team science approach to bring a true cancer digital twin to life.