Friday, December 11, 2026
Jeffrey Driban, Ph.D., Peter Maye Ph.D., and Noël Burtt Ph.D. will present "NIAMS Fireside Chat: Unlocking Musculoskeletal Data to Drive Discovery" from 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT.
About the Speakers
Jeffrey Driban is a Professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Driban is the Director of the Osteoarthritis Initiative Collaborative Osteoarthritis Research Enterprise (OAI CORE) Knowledgebase, a central hub for navigating and understanding the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) study methods and its publicly available data sets. For over 15 years, his OAI-based research has explored novel risk factors and measures to facilitate more efficient clinical trials and a better understanding of osteoarthritis and its potential subtypes.
Peter Maye is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut Health School of Dental Medicine, in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development. He directs development of the Rodent Open Science Skeletal Archive (ROSSA) and has a strong interest in skeletal phenotyping and spatial biology. He received his PhD in Biology from Wesleyan University and completed postdoctoral research under Dianqing Wu and David Rowe at the University of Connecticut Health.
Noël Burtt is Senior Director for the Knowledge Portals Network at the Broad Institute. A human geneticist by training, her research focuses on the design and development of open-access, integrated scientific resources for sharing data and knowledge with the wider research community. She serves as Principal Investigator for the PanKbase program. She also serves as Principal Investigator for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem Knowledge Center and for the Systems Biology of Inflammation Data Portal. Finally, she leads a set of genetics and genomics data and software platforms, including the NHGRI funded, Association to Function Knowledge Portal, and the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Common Metabolic Diseases Knowledge Portal.
About the Seminar Series
The seminar is open to the public and registration is required each month. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Allison Hurst at 301-670-4990. Requests should be made at least five days in advance of the event.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy hosts this seminar series to highlight examples of data sharing and reuse on the second Friday of each month at noon ET. The monthly series highlights researchers who have taken existing data and found clever ways to reuse the data or generate new findings. A different NIH institute or center will also share its data science activities each month.