New data analysis and artificial intelligence will be used for numerous projects, including advancing data science for medical imaging aimed at improving eye disease and cervical cancer diagnoses.

Under the agency's new Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) program, the NIH is issuing 19 awards that will be used to establish a consortium comprising a data science platform and coordinating center, both of which will be developed and managed by the University of Cape Town.

Also, the consortium will have seven research hubs; seven data science research training programs; and four projects focused on studying the ethical, legal, and social implications of this type of research.

NIH director will step down by end of 2021
Longtime U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins, PhD, will leave his post by the end of the year.

Vaccine for tooth decay? It's not science fiction, says NIH
A vaccine for caries could be possible under a new division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) that has been tasked with using "crazy, bold...

NIH will fund genomic variation research endeavors
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is providing $185 million over five years to the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium.

NIH branch institute launches consortium for pancreatic research
As part of the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine will receive...

NIH initiative tackles structural racism in biomedical research
A new framework to tackle structural racism was introduced by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a commentary published in the journal Cell...