Spotlighting ODSS Collaborations with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices in Fiscal Year 2025

Welcome to the March 2026 Director’s Corner! We’re back for the new year to share updates from the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS). This month, we’re spotlighting the ODSS collaborations with the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices in fiscal year 2025.  We capture these collaborations in PDF documents sent to ICO directors. The PDF documents serve as a great way to disseminate information about the impact of ODSS collaborations, with detailed graphics and funding highlights. 

To compile the PDF documents, the ODSS gathers relevant information such as funding trends, strategic goal trends, funding highlights, collaboration outputs, and funding outputs across ODSS’s NIH portfolio of partners to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data. We gather this information by reviewing co-funded projects and goals from the past fiscal year.

Each highlight opens with a summary of ODSS funding for the IC in the previous fiscal year. The opening notes funding trends from previous years and ties funding into the larger set of NIH Data Science strategic goals. For example, a PDF document might note that an ICO and ODSS have consistently collaborated to support workforce development or develop analytic tools and data infrastructure. This section also includes graphs and charts to show funding trends, the number of funded projects by goal area, and funding distributions. These are great opportunities to highlight how ICO/ODSS collaborations tie into NIH strategic goals. 

Next, the PDF documents show co-funding highlights between the ICO and ODSS from the previous year. Here, we note specific projects funded by ODSS and completed by the ICO. These might be technologies, training programs, data infrastructures, or many other biomedical and research initiatives. Each project is also tied to a specific goal area within the NIH Data Science strategic goals. Finally, a graphic shows collaboration outputs, noting the number of publications, patents, clinical trials, RAS-supported data resources, ChIRP users, Coursera users, and STRIDES accounts from the previous fiscal year. 

ODSS is grateful for the partnerships and collaboration with the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices that make these highlights possible and illustrate our combined impact in data science, reminding me of a famous African proverb, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Check out the highlights at https://datascience.nih.gov/nih-ic-end-of-year-letters.

Stay tuned for more updates from ODSS, and let’s continue working together to transform data into discovery.