AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Jennifer O’Malley
Jennifer O’Malley is the scientific community manager for the Childhood Cancer Data Lab. She joined Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation in 2019, raising funds and awareness for pediatric cancer research as a special events coordinator. In 2021, she assumed her current role on the Data Lab team. Jen now manages Data Lab communications, administers programs and services, identifies opportunities to maximize reach, and maintains a supportive community for pediatric cancer researchers. Jen received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Master of Arts in Public Relations and Communications from Hofstra University.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation uses AWS to advance cutting-edge pediatric cancer research worldwide
In 2017, the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) founded the Childhood Cancer Data Lab (Data Lab) to address an important gap in the pediatric cancer field: vast amounts of accumulated data were not being put to use at scale. To address this gap, the Data Lab used AWS to build refine.bio, an openly available collection of normalized bulk gene expression data, to make public datasets interoperable and reusable.