Search Results for: Biofluids for research

The FNLCR Molecular Histopathology Laboratory (MHL) provides comprehensive veterinary pathology support for animal health monitoring, biomarker discovery and validation, drug development, genomics, and proteomics on a cost recovered basis. The MHL is organized into multiple Read More...

Radiology and Imaging Sciences provides imaging services for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center patients participating in research protocols conducted by the various NIH institutes. Services include X-rays, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Read More...

The CHTN is a unique NCI-supported resource that provides human tissues and fluids from routine procedures to investigators who utilize human biospecimens in their research. Unlike tissue banks, the CHTN works prospectively with each investigator Read More...

The National Clinical Trials Network Biospecimen Banks (NCTN) receive, store, and distribute human cancer biospecimens collected on NCTN clinical trials . NCTN Biobanks provide cancer researchers with quality, well-annotated biospecimens and associated clinical information. The NCTN Read More...

The Specimen Resource Locator (SRL) is a biospecimen resource database designed to help researchers locate resources that may have the samples needed for their investigational use. This publicly searchable database includes information about biospecimen banks Read More...

Protein and Metabolite Characterization Core (PMCC), formerly known as the Protein Characterization Lab (PCL),  offers various technologies to CCR investigators to characterize proteins and metabolites. The core develops and applies state-of-the-art analytical technologies, primarily mass Read More...

The Chemistry and Synthesis Center (CSC) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides IRP scientists with targeted imaging probes and chemical tools that help accelerate cell-based assays, in vivo imaging studies, and Read More...

02/12/2026 - The NLM Division of Intramural Research (DIR) is pleased to welcome Tiarnán Keenan, MD, PhD, Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and Director of the Medical Retina Fellowship Program at the National Eye Institute Read More...

09/10/2025 - Rare Disease Informatics SIG will host a hybrid workshop at NIH Research Festival to discuss the current research landscape, key challenges, and potential solutions in rare disease informatics across NIH. Agenda: 1. Opening Remarks (5 min) 2. Read More...

02/09/2026 - This one-hour online training provides researchers with an overview of online resources for locating research datasets, data repositories, and data publications for data sharing and re-use. Participants will learn search strategies for locating datasets Read More...

10/29/2025 - This one-hour online training provides researchers with an overview of online resources for locating research datasets, data repositories, and data publications for data sharing and re-use. Participants will learn search strategies for locating datasets Read More...

09/15/2025 - Since 2016, NCI and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have engaged in a strategic, interagency collaboration to simultaneously accelerate advances in precision oncology and scientific computing, including the use of artificial intelligence. The Read More...

09/10/2025 - The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is hosting a workshop at the NIH Research Festival 2025! This hands-on workshop, led by experts from the NIH Sequence Read Archive (SRA), will guide researchers through the Read More...

09/09/2025 - https://researchfestival.nih.gov/2025-nih-research-festival Tuesday, September 09, 2025 Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Thursday, September 11, 2025 Friday, September 12, 2025 Tuesday, September 09, 2025  Poster Sessions throughout the day, FAES Terrace (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) Morning Session, Bldg. 10, Lipsett Amphitheater (10:00 Read More...

08/21/2025 - This one-hour online training provides researchers with an overview of online resources for locating research datasets, data repositories, and data publications for data sharing and re-use. Participants will learn search strategies for locating datasets Read More...

07/17/2025 - NIDDK Biostats Seminar Series: From Research Study Design to Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Data. Learning Objectives 1. The learner should know the difference between observational studies, clinical trials (drug and non-drug studies), and secondary data ( Read More...

05/27/2025 - Agentic AI is a class of artificial intelligence that acts autonomously to make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals. During this event, the participants will discuss the emerging role of AI agents Read More...

03/25/2025 - Agreement Across 10 Artificial Intelligence Models in Assessing HER2 in Breast Cancer Whole Slide Images: Findings from the Friends of Cancer Research Digital PATH Project For more information, please contact Aniruddha Ganguly, Ph.D.

01/21/2026 - Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) remain a major health crisis with profound social and economic burdens. Innovative strategies are needed to identify genetic risk and protective factors, model disease mechanisms, Read More...

01/13/2026 - The past decade has witnessed thriving cell atlas research activities in elucidating human cell types and their organization principles. The NIH BRAIN Initiative launched a pilot 3-year BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium (BICCC) in 2014, Read More...

09/23/2025 - This one-hour online training covers various aspects of sharing code using MATLAB community tools like File Exchange and GitHub. Well-documented methods and workflows enable reproducible research by helping scientists follow each other& Read More...

09/09/2025 - This event will be in-person only, with no Webex/hybrid option.  We will record the sessions and make them available in the BTEP Video Archive. There is no registration necessary.  Read More...

06/25/2025 - Join tony Brook Univer ity&r quo; Dr. Joel altz a he di cu e : the role of pathology artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of pathology imaging biomarker , including tumor infiltrating lymphocyte Read More...

06/20/2025 - Emerging artificial intelligence—e pecially generative model and deep learning—i tran forming biomedical and biological cience. In thi talk, Profe or Juexin Wang of Indiana Univer ity will pre ent ca e tudie Read More...

09/11/2025 - This engaging 1.5-hour workshop explores the practical application of AI in cloud environments, focusing on the STRIDES initiative , NIH Cloud Lab , and SharePoint integration. Participants will gain valuable insights into leveraging these platforms for Read More...

09/11/2025 - This interactive 1.5-hour workshop introduces participants to prompt engineering for effective AI communication. Through engaging, collaborative activities, attendees will learn to design clear, specific prompts that yield high-quality AI outputs for both technical and Read More...

05/08/2025 - Attend this virtual seminar via Teams. The Division of Intramural Research (DIR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers celebrating genetics and genomics research. Speakers are selected by NHGRI Read More...

02/11/2026 - This hour and half online training is part two of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in a Read More...

12/02/2025 - If you are looking for computational tools for your cancer research, join us for this upcoming training session on Galaxy, an open-source and browser-based computational platform. Dr. Jeremy Goecks, an NCI grantee and Assistant Read More...

10/28/2025 - This one-hour and fifteen minute online training is part two of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in Read More...

06/27/2025 - This one-hour and fifteen minute online training is part two of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in Read More...

05/16/2025 - This one-day in-person NIH AI Symposium will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to share their AI-related research, with the goal of disseminating the newest AI research, providing an opportunity to Read More...

04/17/2025 - Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center Virtual Grand Rounds Interested in learning about various cancer indicators, approaches for data integration , and how to leverage data to drive scientific discovery? Then join NCI CBIIT’s Read More...

04/09/2025 - We will share the summary and feedback from Enhancing Data Reuse in Cancer Research Workshop Series hosted by our office in June and July 2024. Join us as we explore: feedback from NCI Data Reuse Read More...

04/03/2025 - The NCI Rising Scholars: Cancer Research Seminar Series is an opportunity to highlight the research and the important contributions made by NCI-supported postdoctoral fellows and early career investigators at NCI laboratories and NCI-funded institutions Read More...

Bioinformatics support to CCR investigators is provided by: CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) The CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) is a resource group which provides a mechanism for CCR researchers to obtain many different types Read More...

01/23/2025 - The NCI Rising Scholars: Cancer Research Seminar Series , hosted by the Center for Cancer Training, highlights the research and important contributions made by postdoctoral scholars and early-career investigators funded via an NCI extramural fellowship Read More...

01/23/2025 - AI in Medicine: Focus on Deep Learning in Medical Genomics This series invites Principal Investigators, Senior Scientists, and Senior Clinicians  to share cutting-edge research and developments in their fields. Each session includes a 20-30 Read More...

03/06/2026 - This 45-minute online Lunch and Learn training will help attendees develop their own customized strategy for responsibly incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, into their workflows.  By the end Read More...

02/27/2026 - This one hour and half hour online training will equip attendees with essential knowledge and skills for effective interactions with Large Language Model (LLM) AI chatbots. Explore the intricacies of prompt engineering and its Read More...

02/19/2026 - Dr. John Quackenbush, a Harvard professor and NCI grantee, will describe the conceptual framework for these network tools, demonstrate some practical applications, and explain how they can help you tackle complex biological questions about Read More...

02/12/2026 - Proteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Dr. Baker’s goal is to design a new generation of proteins that Read More...

02/11/2026 - Streamlining Data Sharing: Practical Tools and Researcher Stories from the NIH GREI Webinar 2 This session will help you make your dataset more FAIR. We will walk through GREI's Data Submission Checklist (https://doi. Read More...

02/10/2026 - This one-hour and thirty minute online training is part one of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in Read More...

01/29/2026 - In the final class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training participants will learn about: Multivariant data analysis Regression Non-parametric tools Goodness of fit tests Read More...

01/28/2026 - Learn about Data Science from Dr. Mark Jensen, Director of Data Science, Center for Operations and Technical Support (CTOS), Bioinformatics and Computational Science (BACS), Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.

01/27/2026 - The SeqSPACE Planning Committee is pleased to announce the second webinar of our two-part webinar series highlighting the work of four junior investigators selected through our recent call for abstracts. Part 2 will feature presentations Read More...

01/27/2026 - This is the third class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. Here, participants will learn about: Bivariate statistics Linear regression Regression diagnostics This class Read More...

01/27/2026 - Join the NCI Cohort Consortium for a webinar on innovative approaches to improving data interoperability across cohort studies. The session will highlight efforts to apply the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model to Read More...

01/23/2026 - In the second class of Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) hosted by NCI Center for Cancer Training, participants will learn about: Inferential statistics Two sample tests of means Small versus large sample consideration Read More...

01/23/2026 - This is the second class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. In this class participants will learn about: Inferential statistics  Two sample Read More...

01/21/2026 - This is the first class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. The focus for this session is univariate data analysis and participants will learn Read More...

01/14/2026 - During this event, Dr. Emilie Roncali, an associate professor at UC Davis, is tackling an intersection of two critical data science concepts in cancer research: theranostics and digital twins. Dr. Roncali will give you Read More...

12/02/2025 - The SeqSPACE Planning Committee is pleased to announce a two-part webinar series highlighting the work of four junior investigators selected through our recent call for abstracts. Part 1 will feature presentations by Dr. Jing Dong Read More...

11/06/2025 - This 45-minute online Lunch and Learn training will help attendees develop their own customized strategy for responsibly incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, into their workflows. By the end of this Read More...

10/30/2025 - This one hour and half hour online training will equip attendees with essential knowledge and skills for effective interactions with Large Language Model (LLM) AI chatbots. Explore the intricacies of prompt engineering and its Read More...

10/27/2025 - This one-hour and thirty minute online training is part one of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in Read More...

09/23/2025 - There are many challenges associated with moving cancer AI originally developed in a research setting into a clinical setting, including into clinical trials. During this event, participants will discuss the integration of AI in Read More...

09/23/2025 - Dr. Church's clinical and research work focus on bringing molecular testing to the clinical care of children with cancer. Through institutional projects (the Profile study, GAIN consortium study) she has profiled thousands of Read More...

09/17/2025 - In this BTEP Coding Club, participants will see how Pandas, a data wrangling package for Python enables extraction of insights from and telling of a cogent story with data. Topics to be discussed include Read More...

09/17/2025 - The rapid advancement of large language models is enabling a new generation of domain-specific agents capable of reasoning, retrieving, and acting in complex biomedical contexts. In this talk, Dr. Lu present two representative systems: Read More...

09/16/2025 - Federated data analysis allows for collaboration and analysis across institutions without physically moving individual-level data to a central location, thus protecting sensitive data and maintaining data security. Join the NCI Cohort Consortium for an Read More...

09/04/2025 - Jupyter Lab is a platform to organize code and analysis steps in one place, allowing users to easily keep track of all steps taken in an analysis, thereby facilitating collaboration and research presentation. This Read More...

08/21/2025 - This class provides an overview of the R and Python programming languages, and how each is used in bioinformatics research. Participants will learn the advantages of each language and how to choose which is Read More...

08/12/2025 - In this lecture, Dr. Mitrophanov will introduce ANOVA as a generalization of the t-test and explain its main purpose: to facilitate statistical hypothesis testing for several groups of observations. He will briefly review the Read More...

07/31/2025 - NIDDK Biostats Seminar Series: From Research Study Design to Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Data. Learning Objectives: Be able to identify, load, and use R resources/packages based upon needs and experience level with R. 1. Read More...

07/24/2025 - NIDDK Biostats Seminar Series: From Research Study Design to Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Data. Learning Objectives: 1. To delineate features of REDCap to support project management for research studies. 2. To outline steps to create detailed Read More...

07/23/2025 - This presentation will explore the next emerging stage where biobanking is characterised by being part of system - Biobanking 4.0. Biobanking has always been about data generation with tissue specimens providing the biological and genomic Read More...

07/23/2025 - The QIIME platform, including QIIME 1 and QIIME 2, has been extensively applied in microbiome research, repeatedly making analyses that were once challenging or impossible into routine tasks. While QIIME began as a marker gene (e. Read More...

06/26/2025 - This one-hour and half minute online training is part one of an introductory two-part series for those who want to learn about research data management and sharing, or for those who are interested in Read More...

06/18/2025 - This 45-minute online Lunch and Learn training will help attendees develop their own customized strategy for responsibly incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, into their workflows.  By the end Read More...

06/11/2025 - This two-hour virtual roundtable discussion will cover development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots at NIH. A chatbot is a software application or web interface designed to have textual or spoken conversations and Read More...

06/04/2025 - This one hour and half hour online training will equip participants with essential knowledge and skills for effective interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. Explore the intricacies of prompt engineering and Read More...

04/23/2025 - Dr. Ruppin's research is focused on multi-disciplinary, algorithmic, computationally driven analysis of large-scale biomedical omics and clinical data, with an emphasis on AI and machine / deep learning approaches. Overall, it centers on three Read More...

04/15/2025 - The Demystifying Medicine Series, jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, includes presentations on pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward PhD students, clinicians and Read More...

04/14/2025 - Gene set analysis (GSA) is essential in genomic research, yet traditional methods often lack transparency and produce contextually irrelevant results, making interpretation challenging. While large language models (LLMs) offer a promising solution for result Read More...

04/10/2025 - TumorDecon is a computational tool at an early stage of contributing to the intersection of bioinformatics and oncology. The goal of TumorDecon is to estimate the percentages of various immune cells from gene expression Read More...

04/03/2025 - Open to HHS Staff Only The goal of the NCI RNA Biology Initiative is to establish a collaborative environment that promotes the swift exchange of information and expertise regarding the structure, function, and biological Read More...

03/19/2025 - The rising popularity of spatial transcriptomics (ST) has prompted the development of numerous analysis methods, each varying in robustness and user accessibility. These diverse approaches could help provide a better understanding of the tumor Read More...

General questions or comments about the BTEP program or classes should be addressed to: NCIBTEP@nih.gov Amy Stonelake, Ph.D . BTEP Program Manager and Bioinformatics Analyst amy.stonelake@nih.gov I am an experienced Read More...

03/12/2025 - Clustering is one of the fundamental unsupervised machine learning algorithms. It is often used to group quantitative proteomic or RNAseq expression data to suggest sub-types of a particular cancer. This presentation covers building a Read More...

02/18/2025 - This class will introduce basic experimental and analytical considerations for bulk RNA sequencing, a technique that is used to profile gene expression at the tissue level. Information taught serves as the foundation for participants Read More...

01/29/2025 - Join Dr. Douglas Flora, executive medical director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing cancer care through oncology. This event will cover: key AI terminology,& Read More...

01/28/2025 - This one hour and half hour online training will equip participants with essential knowledge and skills for effective interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. Explore the intricacies of prompt engineering and Read More...

01/28/2025 - This talk will cover how our group uses the resources of the FRCE cluster to process cryo-electron microscopy data collected in-house. This session is geared towards beginner users. This session will be recorded, and Read More...

01/27/2025 - NCI CCR Liver Cancer Program Seminar Series Dr. Sethupathy is professor of physiological genomics and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell University. He leads a research lab focused on genome-scale and Read More...

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03/24/2026 - Overview This 3-day, virtual workshop will explore how foundation models —a powerful class of advanced  AI models  —can transform cancer research and clinical care. We will Read More...

03/12/2026 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants Read More...

01/22/2026 - Attend this webinar to learn more about XNAT Scout—a new extension of the XNAT imaging informatics platform that’s designed to close the gap between artificial intelligence (AI) model development and clinical deployment. Read More...

01/16/2026 - This one-hour online training introduces applying data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to signals and time-series datasets using MATLAB. The training will cover the entire AI pipeline, from signal exploration to deployment. Participants Read More...

01/15/2026 - Gil Kanfer, PhD, of the NCI CCR High-Throughput Imaging Facility (HiTIF), in the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression (LRBGE) , will present the spatial biology analysis stack HiTIF is building to support Center Read More...

12/16/2025 - Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is evolving rapidly as a pivotal technology in studying the biology of tumors and their associated tumor microenvironments (TME). However, where/how it can impact research remain unclear. In this Read More...

12/09/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs, such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

11/05/2025 - This talk delves into the innovative utilization of generative AI in propelling biomedical research forward. By harnessing single-cell sequencing data, we developed scGPT, a foundational model that extracts biological insights from an extensive dataset Read More...

11/04/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

09/22/2025 - This one-hour online training introduces applying data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to signals and time-series datasets using MATLAB. The training will cover the entire AI pipeline, from signal exploration to deployment. Participants Read More...

09/17/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

07/24/2025 - QIAGEN Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) is the leading pathway analysis application among the life science research community and is cited in tens of thousands of articles for the analysis, integration and interpretation of data Read More...

07/09/2025 - This session of the BTEP Coding Club will demonstrate the use of R programming to perform decision tree analysis, survival tree analysis, and random forest. This event complements a Statistics for Lunch event, " Read More...

06/18/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

05/08/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

This archive contains past and present issues of the  BTEP BioInformatics Bulletin. The BTEP Bioinformatics Bulletin features select upcoming bioinformatics events offered across NIH and is distributed monthly via email to the Center Read More...

05/07/2025 - Join Dr. Eytan Ruppin, NCI investigator in the Center for Cancer Research, as he discusses Path2Space, a new and unpublished deep learning approach that predicts spatial gene expression directly from histopathology slides. Spatial Read More...

04/16/2025 - Updated Location: ATRF, Frederick MD, Main Auditorium What to bring:  Laptop capable of connecting to internet via NIH wifi For questions or to register, please contact Amy Stonelake ( amy.stonelake@nih.gov ) Read More...

The computational chemistry and protein modeling team in the Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS) group provides novel solutions in structural modeling and computational chemistry. Computational scientists in the group collaborate with NCI researchers by using Read More...

03/27/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. Aviv Regev is head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Formerly, Regev was Chair of the Faculty and Core Read More...

BTEP strives to maintain links to resources that should be of interest to CCR Bioinformatics Community.  Some of the resources to will be accessible through more than one of these lists, but since the lists Read More...