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September 2025 EGRP Cancer Epidemiology News

EGRP Cancer Epidemiology News

September 2025

Recognizing Data Sharing Excellence

In 2024, the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) established the Paul Fearn Award for Excellence in Data Sharing to recognize DCCPS-funded grantees, past and present, who have demonstrated commitment to and excellence in data sharing. The award is named posthumously for Dr. Paul Fearn, who was a cross-agency champion of data sharing, data linkages, data provenance, data integration, and data security.

Photo of Paul Fearn who once served as the Chief of the Surveillance Informatics Branch in NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. He passed away in 2018.

For the first year of the award (2025), DCCPS acknowledged the many years of extramural research and selected four projects for their exemplary efforts. The investigators and their teams demonstrated a commitment to widespread data sharing, surpassing the data sharing requirements at the time of their funding. Congratulations to the following inaugural Paul Fearn awardees! DCCPS appreciates their dedication to data sharing.

  • California Teachers Study team
    Contact PI: Dr. James Lacey
    NIH RePORTER: U01CA199277
    Accomplishments include making the data available to the research community through a secure cloud-based California Teachers StudyExternal Web Site Policy (CTS) researcher platform. More than 200 publications have leveraged CTS data.
  • Up for a Challenge (U4C) - Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
    Data contributors: Drs. Christopher Haiman, Esther John, Philip Kraft, Sara Lindstroem, Wei Zheng, and Elad Ziv
    NIH RePORTER: U01CA098758, U01CA098233, R01CA120120, R01CA124558
    dbGaP datasets: phs000912, phs000812, phs000799
    U4C accomplishments include the sharing of historical datasets that included underrepresented participants of non-European descent to enable cross-ethnic analyses exploring critical questions that were uniquely addressable through direct comparisons across ancestries.
  • Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium team (BCSC)
    Contact PI: Dr. Diana Miglioretti
    NIH RePORTER: P01CA154292
    BCSCExternal Web Site Policy accomplishments include the sharing of five publicly available, immediately downloadable, de-identified datasets, which have been downloaded over 7,000 times and used in over 600 associated publications.

Please mark your calendars for a webinar dedicated to the Paul Fearn Award for Excellence in Data Sharing on November 10, 2025, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET. More details will be shared in the coming weeks.

Funding Opportunities

  • RFA-RM-25-006, Pilot Projects to Enhance the Human Virome Program (R03, Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
  • NOT-CA-25-118, Notice of National Cancer Institute’s Participation in PA-25-304, NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Not Required) and in PA-25-306 (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Required)
    • NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant
      • PA-25-304, (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
      • PA-25-306, (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Required)
  • Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
    • PAR-25-322, (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    • PAR-25-323, (R01, Basic Experimental Studies with Human Required)

Grants Policy Notices

  • NOT-OD-25-155, New Application Structure for NIH-Funded International Collaborations
  • NOT-OD-25-142, Update: No-Cost Extension Functionality in eRA
  • NOT-OD-25-143, NIH Will Stop Posting Notices of Funding Opportunities in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts in FY2026
  • NOT-OD-25-151, Review of the Accuracy of Grants Information for Fiscal Year 2025
  • NOT-OD-25-152, Preview of NIH Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support Coming Soon to SciENcv
  • NOT-OD-25-153, NIH Disposition of Biospecimens Collected from Tribal Populations
  • NOT-OD-25-159, Required Security and Operational Standards for NIH Controlled-Access Data Repositories
  • NOT-OD-25-160, NIH Policy on Enhancing Security Measures for Human Biospecimens
  • NOT-OD-25-161, Update: Recission Notice re: Implementation of NIH Research Security Measures

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Last Updated: 30 Sep, 2025