CRDC Insights

The CRDC team, whether engaged in activities specific to the CRDC Data Commons, NCI Cloud Resources, or CRDC’s Core Services, remains focused on advancing its mission of making data and resources securely accessible to the cancer research community. The team has provided updates. 

Members of the CRDC team engaged with the cancer research community at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting through collaborative sessions and posters. 

Several members of the CRDC team recently published an assessment of publications that reference CRDC-housed data and/or the use of NCI Cloud Resources and the analytical tools CRDC makes publicly available.

This year, the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) marks five years as a Driver Project with the Global Alliance for Genomic and Health (GA4GH). The GA4GH is an international non-profit collaboration of organizations in the research community dedicated to advancing human health by developing technical standards and policy frameworks that expand the responsible, voluntary, and secure use of genomic and related health data.

The NIH/NCI Medical Imaging De-Identification (MIDI) Project was established to assess tools and processes for de-identifying radiology images in DICOM format that are shared for research purposes. Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) can be embedded in these images as pixel data, included in metadata headers, or attached as descriptive information.