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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Up For a Challenge Organizing Team <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:23 PM Subject: Inviting DREAMers to join NCI's "Up For a Challenge" Competition Inviting the DREAM Community to join NCI's Up For a Challenge Competition View this email in your browser <http://t.sidekickopen05.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX48p-Yr4W2m646p3VXKlsF3y7_BYm2_qf9fsnwg03?t=http%3A%2F%2Fus7.campaign-archive1.com%2F%3Fu%3Db146de537186191a9d2110f3a%26id%3D68f5af7281%26e%3Dcbece4bfa2&si=4782978249523200&pi=fbda19be-41ca-4f6a-e170-749d4b800b05> *Inviting the DREAM Challenge Community to Participate in NCI's "Up For a Challenge" Competition * Dear Members of the DREAM Challenge Community, We wanted to let you know of another exciting Open Challenge that launched earlier this month. Similar to DREAM Challenges, this Challenge is running on Synapse: you can find the Challenge website to register and get started here <http://t.sidekickopen05.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX48p-Yr4W2m646p3VXKlsF3y7_BYm2_qf9fsnwg03?t=http%3A%2F%2Fsagebase.us7.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Db146de537186191a9d2110f3a%26id%3D1de694257c%26e%3Dcbece4bfa2&si=4782978249523200&pi=fbda19be-41ca-4f6a-e170-749d4b800b05>. Please read the following announcement to learn more. *Gustavo Stolovitzky on behalf of DREAM.* *The National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) is partnering with Sage Bionetworks to launch "Up for a Challenge (U4C)—Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.” * *U4C Goals* Studies suggest that genetic factors play a role in determining who is at increased risk of developing breast cancer, as well as what type of breast cancer they develop. The goal of the Challenge is to encourage innovative approaches to more fully explain the genetic basis of breast cancer. *Specifically, the Challenge aims to use innovative approaches to identify novel pathways—including new genes or combinations of genes, genetic variants, or sets of genomic features—involved in breast cancer risk in order to generate new biological hypotheses. *Through this Challenge, NCI aims to increase the number and diversity of researchers addressing a difficult problem by encouraging broader collaborations. Ideally, this will result in new insights that could help improve breast cancer prevention, screening, and/or treatment. *Breast Cancer GWAS Data Available for U4C* U4C participants will be able to apply for controlled access to genetic epidemiologic data from thousands of breast cancer cases and controls from ethnically diverse populations. *Some of these data sets are being made available to researchers for the first time for this Challenge.* *U4C Prizes* NCI will award up to $50,000 in cash prizes as well as other rewards based on the identification of novel findings, replication of findings, innovation of approach, evidence of novel biological hypotheses, and collaboration. The U4C offers participants an opportunity to advance scientific knowledge of the causes of breast cancer, the second most common cancer in the world. *For More Information* Visit the U4C website at https://www.synapse.org/upforachallenge <http://sagebase.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b146de537186191a9d2110f3a&id=8b029e29a3&e=cbece4bfa2> to sign up and to learn more about the U4C goals, application, due dates, rules, and other FAQs.
