Outstanding Achievement Award winners have realized significant accomplishments and made important contributions to the caBIG™ Program. Awardees have demonstrated excellence in the areas of project management, product and tool development and adoption, and collaboration. Awardees have also exhibited thought leadership that significantly contributed to the progress of the caBIG™ Program.
The caBIG™ Program is proud to award the following teams and individuals with Outstanding Achievement Awards:
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (and partners): Pankaj Agarwal, Bob Annechiarico, Jamie Cuticchia, Raj Dash, Kimberly Johnson, Patrick McConnell, Salvatore Mungal (Duke University); Ram Chilukuri (SemanticBits, LLC.)
Integrative Cancer Research, Architecture, Vocabularies and Common Data Elements, Clinical Trial Management
Systems, Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools, and Strategic Planning Workspaces
In recognition of excellence in achieving and realizing the goals and principles of caBIG, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and its partners have been awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award. Duke has proven to be a leader in the Architecture and VCDE workspaces, comprising two of the six Guides to Mentors. In collaborating closely with a large number of caBIG institution teams, crossing all workspaces, the Duke team has helped caBIG meet many of its strategic goals, truly aiding the program in the move from the pilot to enterprise phase.
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and their partners are the developers of RProteomics, which provides a user interface and services for analyzing proteomics mass spectometry data; the Cancer Translational Research Informatics Platform (caTRIP), a project that connects the caTISSUE Core, the Clinical Annotation Engine (CAE), Tumor Registry, and caIntegrator SNP projects to provide a mechanism for translational research; and the Cancer Central Clinical Patient Registry (C3PR), a system for registering patients to clinical trial protocols, an important integration point in the caBIG CTMS suite of applications. Duke CCC and their partners have also created the testing infrastructure for the caGrid Project, with a special focus on workflows, and are adopters of the caTISSUE Core and the Cancer Central Clinical Database (C3D).