NCI Office of Data Sharing Impact Prize

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Data Sharing, NIH

A $200,000 prize for ideas and documented exemplars that make publicly funded research outputs genuinely findable and reusable. It explicitly invites librarians, staff scientists, patient advocates, and citizen scientists, not only PIs.

Indicative award

up to $200k (varies by call)Total cash prizes of $200,000 across three tracks. Per-winner amounts are not stated in the overview section.

Timing

Periodic callsPeriodic calls · Aug, OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-05 — 52 days awayOpen 2026-08-03 to 2026-10-05. Tied to the annual NCI Data Jamboree (2026 event 16-18 November, Rockville MD), so a repeat cycle is plausible but not published.

Who can apply

Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Master's / undergraduate

Eligibility

Individuals, groups, or entities may enter after registering. Private entities must be incorporated with a primary U.S. place of business; individuals must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and 18 or older. Non-U.S. participants may join a team but cannot win money (honorable mention only). Federal entities and employees acting in scope, and HHS employees in a personal capacity, are excluded. Track 3 is limited to people who submitted a 2026 NCI Data Jamboree abstract.

SSWR clusters

Topics

data sharing · open science · reproducibility · research infrastructure

Apply at

https://www.nih.gov/challenges/nci-office-data-sharing-impact-prize

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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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