AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Ashwini Davison, MD
Dr. Ashwini Davison is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for Oncology at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she leads several strategic initiatives focused on harnessing the potential for AI in cancer care from end to end. She is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics and prior to joining AWS 4 years ago was a full-time faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Alzheimer’s disease research portal enables data sharing and scientific discovery at scale
The National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS DSS), powered by AWS, is a genomic database that provides access to publicly available datasets for Alzheimer’s disease and related neuropathologies. Created to make Alzheimers-genetics knowledge more accessible to researchers, NIAGADS has genomics data on 172,701 samples from 98 datasets and is now 1.3 petabytes (PB) in total size. NIAGADS is creating a system that promotes scientific discovery through data sharing with a large cadre of institutions.
Pediatric cancer researchers use AWS to accelerate Cancer Moonshot
Earlier this year, US President Joe Biden set a goal to end cancer as we know it by improving prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. To answer this call, AWS is expanding its ongoing work with the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN). Together, AWS and the CBTN will enable researchers and clinicians to share and analyze medical record, imaging, genomic, and other data in near real-time to speed development of new therapies for pediatric brain cancers.