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Breaking Down Barriers: How AWS Democratizes Genomic Data for the World

Breaking Down Barriers: How AWS Democratizes Genomic Data for the World

This blog is the first in a three-part series that explores how AWS is transforming genomic research through democratized data access, sovereign-by-design outbreak intelligence platforms, and population-scale biobanks that enable global collaboration while maintaining data security and privacy.

Accelerate your organization's compliance journey with a Secure Research Environment on AWS

Accelerate your organization’s compliance journey with a Secure Research Environment on AWS

Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Secure Research Environment (SRE) to help institutions remain agile and competitive while supporting alignment with evolving security and compliance standards.

Federated learning for biobank data at the CMU-NVIDIA Hackathon

Federated learning for biobank data at the CMU-NVIDIA Hackathon

by Ben Busby, Dr. Beryl Rabindran, Cristian Chicas, Holger Roth, Maria Fassinger, and Melanie Gainey on in Public Sector Permalink Share

In this blog post, we will share how at the January 2026 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)–NVIDIA Federated Learning Hackathon for Biomedical Applications, ten teams built end‑to‑end prototypes on NVIDIA FLARE (NVIDIA Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment), with data prepared for modeling on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to test how FL could support real‑world biobank collaboration at scale.