Cancer Research Data Commons and Pediatric Research: 2026 AACR Annual Meeting

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If you’re attending the 2026 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, catch this presentation from NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) as staff talk about artificial intelligence (AI) enablement across the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC).

Drs. Tanja Davidsen and Erika Kim will share how NCI CBIIT is changing the CRDC ecosystem by: 

• incorporating the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s (ARPA-H) Biomedical Data Fabric (BDF) technologies focused on ontology-driven data modeling, standardized metadata and semantics, and machine-readable infrastructure.
• harmonizing data to make it more readable for AI models.
• paving the way for predictive modeling to make researchers capable of more advanced analysis and hypothesis generation. 

The ARPA-H BDF Toolbox program provides the technologies for changing the CRDC ecosystem and making it more equipped for AI. The NCI CRDC is a scalable data science infrastructure for managing and sharing high volumes of cancer data, including genomics, imaging, proteomics, clinical trials, and population-scale research.

In this presentation, CRDC teams will demonstrate the power of the collaboration with the BDF Program. Dr. Subhashini Jagu, from NCI’s Office of Data Sharing, will showcase how the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) benefits from CRDC’s interoperable infrastructure and future BDF’s technology integration to enhance pediatric data reusability, analytic reproducibility, and computational scalability.