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Where Industry Meets Experimentation
For many biomedical researchers, the biggest challenges don’t begin with a lack of ideas — they begin with a lack of access. Health data is powerful but deeply sensitive, and collaborating across institutions, countries, or health systems often raises legal, ethical, and technical concerns. Yet solving today’s most urgent biomedical questions increasingly depends on working across those boundaries. To address this challenge, the University Libraries and NVIDIA brought students, researchers, and industry experts together for a three-day bioinformatics hackathon the first week of January. The goal was to explore how researchers can work together while keeping sensitive health data secure and decentralized — meaning the data stays where it is, rather than being copied into one central place.