Abstract 920: Insights from the National Cancer Institute’s request for information on existing data sharing processes for NIH-funded research

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Abstract Data sharing plays a crucial role in accelerating biomedical research discoveries, promoting rigorous and reproducible research, enabling research data reuse, and fostering public trust. To facilitate data sharing, a coordinated, sustainable, and streamlined infrastructure is required to store, preserve, retrieve, and make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Starting January 25, 2023, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required to comply with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (https://sharing.nih.gov/data-management-and-sharing-policy/about-data-management-and-sharing-policies/data-management-and-sharing-policy-overview) and indicate how research data funded by the NIH will be managed and broadly shared. As institutions prepare to meet these requirements, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is looking to understand the existing processes of data storage, preservation, and sharing including what infrastructure and services are available to facilitate data sharing. To carry out this goal, the NCI’s Office of Data Sharing (ODS), dedicated to promoting responsible and efficient sharing of cancer research data, issued a Request for Information (RFI) to understand the existing data sharing processes for NIH-Funded Research. The RFI was designed to collect information on services (e.g. guidance on data standards and file formats), technologies (e.g. storage, compression, retrieval, archival, analysis tools, workbenches), and processes (e.g. governance, communication, education, outreach) that promote data sharing. ODS utilized the RFI to gather input from stakeholders involved in facilitating data sharing. This included personnel from various fields such as research laboratories, scientific instrumentation core facilities, offices of research and/or sponsored programs, provost offices or other research administration, libraries, information technology, and institutional review boards. We also engaged with bioinformaticians and data scientists who are actively contributing to data curation, formatting, and analysis. Here, we present analysis of the responses received, including insights relating to gaps and challenges in data sharing, and proposed next steps and recommendations. Citation Format: Mousumi Ghosh, Nathan Boyd, Subhashini Jagu. Insights from the National Cancer Institute’s request for information on existing data sharing processes for NIH-funded research [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2024; Part 1 (Regular Abstracts); 2024 Apr 5-10; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2024;84(6_Suppl):Abstract nr 920.