Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan's role in team science has been essential for multiple, successful multi-disciplinary research projects. In the Trans-Divisional Research Program, she is facilitating collaborations in data science and in the study of brain tumors by leveraging her experience in multi-institutional team science and the use of large, complex healthcare datasets to enhance the data assets already available in the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons.
Given her dual roles in CBIIT and DCEG, Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan envisions bringing data science to all research domains within DCEG, helping to move towards (1) use of cloud resources for computing and data sharing via the NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative, and (2) use of the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse (FAIR) principles for research in DCEG. In addition, she is developing and facilitating closer links with all divisions across the NCI and more generally across NIH, especially with the NIH Office for Data Science Strategy, in order to more fully leverage data assets and data analytics for cancer research.