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News & Press Releases

2023

  • January 10

    Sage Bionetworks Appoints New President

2022

  • November 15

    Sage Bionetworks launches new coordination center with the National Cancer Institute to increase collaboration and resource sharing across the cancer biology community
  • October 17

    Sage Bionetworks awarded NIH grant to facilitate collaborative translation research on exceptional longevity
  • September 6

    Going Beyond Informed Consent: The Power of Participatory Research
  • September 6

    Sage Bionetworks and Wellcome Trust create roadmap for future global mental health databank
  • April 19

    Sage Bionetworks Appoints New Chief Operating Officer
  • February 28

    Sage Bionetworks Appoints New Chief Data Officer
  • January 4

    Sage Bionetworks and PPACMAN release Psorcast app to support patients with psoriatic disease and health researchers

2021

  • November 23

    Three Principles for Collaborative Benchmarking Challenges
  • June 8

    Introducing NLPSandbox.io
  • March 3

    Cancer Complexity Knowledge Portal Launched
  • February 24

    Applied ELSI research at Sage
  • February 22

    Third edition of IRB reference manual released with new chapter on mHealth
  • February 4

    Expanding the Community

2020

  • November 18

    The Global Mental Health Databank – Practicing Better Science Together
  • November 18

    Collaborating with youth is key to studying mental-health management
  • November 5

    Sage Joins DAPI Project for Down Syndrome Research
  • October 9

    Discovering Keys That Could Unlock Better Personalized Treatments to Destroy Cancer
  • September 16

    ‘The Playbook’ Is Essential Guide for Developing & Deploying Digital Clinical Measures
  • September 9

    Bringing Structure and Design to Data Governance
  • September 3

    National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data Enclave Launched
  • June 30

    dHealth Digital Health Knowledge Portal Launched
  • June 17

    The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Sage Bionetworks Announce Winners of the $25,000 BEAT-PD DREAM Challenge
  • June 16

    TEDx Talk: Have You Given Away Your Medical Privacy?
  • May 1

    COVID-19 DREAM Challenge Has Launched
  • April 9

    Sage Assembly Webinar
  • March 6

    Competition yields new approaches to trace development, cell by cell
  • March 2

    Press Release: DM Dream Challenge
  • February 26

    Uncovering Therapeutic Strategies for Neurofibromatosis Type 1
  • February 19

    Sage Perspective: Retention in Remote Digital Health Studies
  • February 17

    Evaluation of Participation in Digital Health Studies
  • February 13

    Sage Joins Open Wearables Initiative
  • January 23

    Democratizing data access
  • January 14

    The Sage Perspective on Data Management and Sharing
  • January 14

    The Sage Perspective on the American Research Environment
  • January 13

    Principal Scientist Brian Bot Wins 2020 General Symbiosis Award
  • January 13

    The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Sage Bionetworks Launch $25,000 BEAT-PD DREAM Challenge

2019

  • December 17

    AACR Project GENIE Serves As Hub and Harmonizer for Cancer Data
  • November 25

    New Papers: Remote Retention in Digital Health Studies, Machine Learning, Reproducible Benchmarking
  • November 20

    NEW PAPER: Are people willing to share digital data for biological research?
  • November 8

    DREAM Challenges Announces Changes in Its Leadership That Support a Rich Future in Open Benchmarking 
  • October 31

    Trusting Tech Companies with Our DNA Data A ‘Tough Sell’
  • October 25

    Sage Platform Team Officially Launches Data Portals
  • October 22

    Sage Bionetworks Appoints Ljubomir Bradic as Director of Design
  • October 18

    VIDEOS: Watch Talks from Sage’s mHealth App Developers Workshop
  • October 1

    The Value of Team Science in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
  • October 1

    PRESS RELEASE: Bringing Open Science to Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s
  • September 16

    BLOG: Reflections from the Mobile Health App Developer Workshop
  • September 13

    LAUNCH: Privacy Design Toolkit for Mobile Health
  • September 11

    Toward A Distributed, Benchmarking Ecosystem Using Electronic Healthcare Data
  • September 5

    Press Release: CommonHealth Will Enable Android™ Phone Users to Access and Share their Electronic Health Record Data with Trusted Apps and Partners
  • August 22

    BLOG: After the Sage 10th Anniversary Assembly – Broadening Our Perspectives
  • July 9

    BLOG: In which Sage turns 10 and celebrates with their community
  • May 25

    LAUNCH: My BP Lab 2.0 Now Available in 6 New Markets
  • May 20

    Nerve Fibers in Skin Are Involved in Initiating Neurofibromas in Patients with Disfiguring Neurofibromatosis 1
  • May 15

    Sage Announces Scientific Advisory Board
  • April 24

    Bridging Privacy Policy with Product Design
  • April 23

    Bringing Open Science to Neuroinformatics
  • April 23

    On the Ethics of Open Science
  • April 23

    Reproducibility in Computational Analysis
  • April 23

    From Open Systems to Trusted Systems: New Approaches to Data Commons
  • April 23

    How Data Commons Can Support Open Science
  • March 23

    Voices from the Open Science Movement
  • March 23

    Recognizing the Successes of Open Science
  • March 23

    Open Science is About the Outcomes, Content, and Process of Research
  • March 23

    Do Scientists Reuse Open Data?
  • March 23

    Open Science: To What End?
  • March 18

    Sage Welcomes 3 New Board Members
  • March 4

    A Critical Assessment of Open Science
  • January 11

    Why You Should Care About Universal Informed Consent
  • January 10

    Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Generated from Human NF1 Associated Plexiform Neurofibromas made available to the research community

2018

  • December 14

    Sage’s Synapse Platform Key to Data Coordination for PsychENCODE Consortium
  • November 18

    Wellcome Trust partners with Sage Bionetworks to launch Wellcome Data Re-use Prizes
  • November 13

    Using Open Technology Platform to Help Develop Community Resource for Mobile Cognitive Tracking
  • November 5

    Elements of Informed Consent
  • October 7

    Bringing Scientists Together to Speed Discovery
  • October 4

    Winners of Sage Digital Health Catalyst Program Announced
  • July 20

    Sage Bionetworks launches interactive, web-based explorer, Agora in conjunction with NIH-led AMP-AD Target Discovery and Preclinical Validation Project
  • June 15

    New Research Tools Available in the Search for Therapies for Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1)
  • June 13

    Children’s Tumor Foundation – Synodos for NF2 Consortium Publishes Key Results of its Work
  • April 5

    Leading Cancer Research Organizations Jointly Unveil Comprehensive Immunotherapy Tool to Analyze Interactions Between Tumors and Immune Microenvironment
  • March 15

    UCSF and Sage Bionetworks announce stress research study leveraging new sensor technologies on the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+

2017

  • November 3

    Sage Bionetworks is part of a consortium of universities and research groups which has received a five-year, $25 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science
  • August 21

    Novartis launches first large-scale research study in multiple sclerosis that allows participants to contribute from smartphones
  • August 14

    Sage Bionetworks and Celgene Corporation announce the launch of Journey PRO, a mobile health research study designed to improve the lives of patients living with chronic anemia
  • July 20

    Progress is being made in the use of personalized approaches to create both in vitro and in vivo tumour models
  • July 10

    DREAM Challenge Community competition launches to learn how to use smartphone and wearable sensors to monitor health
  • June 27

    Wall Street Journal reports abundant health data gathered by phones produces better, more timely studies, citing Sage Bionetworks’ mobile health program
  • June 2

    IBM and Sage Bionetworks announce winners of first phase of DREAM Digital Mammography Challenge
  • June 1

    First Analysis of AACR Project GENIE Data Published, demonstrating potential of data-sharing initiatives to accelerate the pace of progress against cancer
  • May 17

    Sage supported Mobile Health App for Bipolar Patients Wins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mood Challenge
  • March 2

    Parkinson’s researchers use smartphones to measure disease progression, treatment effects in clinical substudy
  • February 23

    Turning the Unknown into the Known – Data mining is increasingly used to prospect for rare-disease biology and treatments
  • February 14

    Sharing Skin-Selfies for Science: melanoma study releases participant generated smartphone data to research community worldwide
  • February 14

    Sharing Skin-Selfies for Science: melanoma study releases participant generated smartphone data to research community worldwide
  • February 1

    Cancer Research Institute Awards Grant to Develop Powerful Genomic Data Resource for Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers
  • January 5

    AACR Project GENIE Publicly Releases Large Cancer Genomic Data Set

2016

  • December 1

    Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Cancer Research Institute Launch Collaboration on Cancer Neoantigens
  • December 1

    Sean Parker’s I/O group teams up with CRI for cancer neoantigens R&D deal
  • November 30

    mPower ResearchKit Blog – Participant-centered research in a rocky data sharing climate
  • November 16

    Prostate Cancer Challenge – Crowdsourcing a better prostate cancer prediction tool
  • November 9

    NCI Launches New Cancer Systems Biology Consortium – CSBC
  • October 24

    Conversations on Health Care Features John Wilbanks, CCO, Sage Bionetworks
  • October 18

    Celgene Corporation and Sage Bionetworks Announce Technology Collaboration to Develop Observational Study Using the Apple ResearchKit Framework
  • October 16

    First ResearchStack App, MoleMapper, Launches on Android
  • October 7

    ResearchStack Goes Live, Opening mHealth Studies to the Android Ecosystem
  • October 7

    Hundreds of experts team up to improve early detection of breast cancer
  • September 28

    Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia publication in Nature Neuroscience
  • September 7

    The Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge
  • September 1

    Seattle artificial intelligence experts enlisted in Cancer Moonshot coding challenge
  • September 1

    $1.2M crowdsourced contest aims to improve breast-cancer detection through deep machine learning
  • August 15

    Breast cancer imaging challenge one part of achieving Cancer Moonshot
  • August 3

    International team launches community competition to unravel how cancer changes a cell’s RNA
  • August 3

    International team launches community competition to find how cancer changes a cell’s RNA
  • July 22

    Health data should belong to patients, Topol argues
  • July 20

    Sage Bionetworks Advocates for Open Systems in Health Research
  • July 20

    Nature Commentary – Stop the Privatization of Health Data
  • July 15

    DREAM Publication Featured on the Cover of Nature Reviews Genetics
  • July 6

    Sage Bionetworks joins with The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) for President Obama’s All of Us Research Program
  • July 6

    TSRI Awarded $20 Million for U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program
  • June 29

    Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge
  • June 23

    Sage Bionetworks Announces the Promotion of Lara Mangravite to President
  • April 18

    TEDMED: Making Connections Through Data: What would health and health care look like if the millions of people tracking their activity everyday donated their personal data to research?
  • April 16

    The Economist: Genetic superheroes; An extensive study of the genetics of more than 500,000 people has revealed a different kind of mutant superhero
  • April 12

    The Independent: ‘Genetic superheroes’ are real and could lead to life-saving treatments – but nobody can talk to them
  • April 11

    Researchers from Mount Sinai and Sage Bionetworks Report Analysis of Nearly 600,000 Genomes for Resilience Project
  • April 11

    STAT: Genetic ‘unicorns’ defy their own DNA — and could hint at new treatments
  • April 11

    The Mirror (UK): Genetic superheroes could bring life-saving treatment to millions
  • April 11

    The Guardian: Scientists search for 13 people to solve genetic mutation mystery
  • April 11

    MIT Technology Review: Search for New Medical Treatments Zeroes In on Genetic Superheroes
  • April 11

    Wired: Genetic Superheroes Walk Among Us, But Shhh! No One Can Tell ‘Em
  • April 11

    New Scientist: The genetic superheroes who have mutations but not the disease
  • April 11

    The Atlantic: Thirteen Anonymous Genetic Superheroes Walk Among Us
  • April 11

    PBS: These 13 adults escaped deadly genetic childhood disorders, but how?
  • April 11

    BBC News: ‘Superhero DNA’ keeps diseases at bay
  • April 11

    Nature Press Conference
  • April 11

    Popular Science: SCIENTISTS DETECT WHICH PATIENTS ARE RESISTANT TO GENETIC DISEASES
  • April 11

    Science: ‘Buffer genes’ may protect these 13 people from rare genetic diseases
  • April 11

    NPR: How Do ‘Genetic Superheroes’ Overcome Their Bad DNA?
  • April 11

    The New York Times: People Who Avoided Illness Could Be Key in Treating Those Who Didn’t
  • April 6

    Yahoo: Apple’s ResearchKit Takes Medical Research Years Into the Future
  • March 30

    mHealth Intelligence: ResearchKit Project Makes its Data Public
  • March 24

    ALZFORUM: Mobile Phone App for Parkinson’s Patients Tests New Model for Data Sharing
  • March 21

    Sage Bionetworks Uses Participant Feedback to Update mPower App
  • March 21

    Nature: Mobile-phone health apps deliver data bounty
  • March 21

    MIT Technology Review: Apple Hopes You’ll Talk to Your iPhone and Call Your Doctor in the Morning
  • March 7

    Parkinson’s News Today: 6-month Data from Parkinson’s mPower App Study in 9,500 People Released to Researchers
  • March 4

    Politico: RESEARCH KIT BEARS FRUIT
  • March 4

    Fierce Healthcare: Open-science nonprofit trots out promising data from study of iPhone app for Parkinson’s
  • March 3

    HIT Consultant: Sage Bionetworks Releases ResearchKit Data from 9,500 Parkinson’s Patients for Researchers Worldwide
  • March 3

    International Business Times: Apple Inc.’s ResearchKit Enables iPhone Parkinson’s Disease Study To Release Treasure Trove Of Data
  • March 3

    Sage Bionetworks Releases First-of-Its-Kind Data from Parkinson’s iPhone Study
  • March 2

    mobi health news: Sage Bionetworks releases data from first six months of Parkinson’s mPower ResearchKit study
  • February 17

    2015 DREAM Challenge video

2015

  • November 17

    International Team Announces Crowdsourcing Competition, Running on Google Cloud Platform, To Understand How Cancers Originate And Evolve
  • November 16

    International Team Announces Crowdsourcing Competition, Running on Google Cloud Platform, To Understand How Cancers Originate And Evolve
  • November 5

    Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Announce Winners of ALS Stratification Challenge
  • November 5

    Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Announce Winners of ALS Stratification Challenge
  • October 19

    Winners Recognized for Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Competition to Drive Innovation in Prostate Cancer Research
  • October 19

    Winners Recognized for Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Competition to Drive Innovation in Prostate Cancer Research
  • October 15

    Sage Bionetworks Launches Mole Mapper, an iPhone-app Research Study to Better Understand Melanoma
  • October 12

    International Consortium Trailblazing the Genomic Classification of Colorectal Cancer Through Big Data
  • October 8

    Nature Biotechnology: GSK Collaborates with Apple on ResearchKit
  • October 7

    White House
  • October 6

    the White House: Celebrating the Five-Year Anniversary of Challenge.gov with More Than 20 New Prizes
  • September 22

    AstraZeneca supports crowd sourcing challenge to find new combination therapies for cancer
  • September 22

    AstraZeneca Supports Crowd Sourcing Challenge to Find New Combination Therapies for Cancer
  • September 10

    Healthcare IT News: BM Ramps up Watson with Products and Partnerships
  • September 10

    TechRepublic: IBM Watson Health computes a pair of new solutions to improve healthcare data and security
  • September 10

    Health Data Management: New Uses, Clients for IBM Watson Health
  • September 10

    IBM: IBM Watson Health Announces New Partnerships, New Cloud Services and Global HQ in Cambridge, MA
  • September 4

    St. Baldrick’s Foundation Awards Sage a $610,000 Grant
  • September 4

    The AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge Opens!
  • August 27

    Winners Announced for Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Competition to Drive Innovation in Prostate Cancer Research
  • August 24

    Timmerman Report: Informed Consent isn’t working, Apple just might be onto something better
  • August 17

    Project Data Sphere, LLC Executive Appointments
  • July 22

    Science Translational Medicine: App-enabled trial participation: Tectonic shift or tepid rumble?
  • June 24

    New Prize Competition Hopes to Boost Discovery of Novel Breast Cancer Genetic Pathways
  • June 23

    Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Launch an Open Science Challenge to Find Clues to Understanding Heterogeneity in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • June 3

    Biomedical Computation Review: Crowdsourcing to Experts: The DREAM Challenges
  • May 15

    Fusion: How diversity in science can improve communities
  • May 4

    FCW: Delivering on the promise of big data
  • April 23

    newsworks: For breast cancer research, Apple delivers strength in numbers approach
  • April 6

    Nature Methods: Cancer: smoother journeys for molecular data
  • April 2

    New York Times: Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery
  • April 2

    NEW FRONTIERS: Electronic Sensors Break New Ground in Neurology Practice and Research
  • March 13

    Science Friday: ‘ResearchKit’ Taps iPhone Users for Clinical Trials
  • March 12

    Forbes: In Big Shift, 23andMe Will Invent Drugs Using Customer Data
  • March 12

    The Scientist: Will Apple’s ResearchKit Change Science?
  • March 10

    WBUR: An App For That: iPhones As Medical Research Tools
  • March 10

    Medium: Better by Default An Access Conversation with John Wilbanks
  • March 10

    Nature: Smartphones set to boost large-scale health studies
  • March 10

    Marketplace: Apple’s ResearchKit links iPhones to medical research
  • March 10

    TIME: How Apple’s New Health App Could Be Used — or Abused
  • March 9

    WIRED: Can Apple’s ResearchKit Really Change Medical Research?
  • March 9

    Sage Bionetworks and The Michael J. Fox Foundation Collaborate to Amplify Parkinson’s Patient Voice in Research
  • March 9

    Sage Bionetworks Launches Parkinson mPower App to Study Parkinson’s Disease Symptom Variation
  • March 9

    Sage Bionetworks Launches “Share the Journey” iPhone App to Study Breast Cancer
  • March 9

    Sage Bionetworks Launches “Share the Journey,” A Mobile App-Based Research Study for the Breast Cancer Community
  • March 5

    GenomeWeb: Sage Bionetworks Releases First Datasets from NIH-led Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative
  • January 28

    Harvard News and Events: Reengineering privacy, post-Snowden

2014

  • December 28

    New York Times: In a New Approach to Fighting Disease, Helpful Genetic Mutations Are Sought
  • June 2

    DREAM and Sage Bionetworks Open Three Big Data Challenges to Impact Biomedical and Clinical Research
  • June 2

    Big Data Challenge for Alzheimer’s Disease Launches in Global Effort to Use Innovative Open Science Techniques to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment
  • May 29

    CORRECTING and REPLACING The Resilience Project, A New Approach to Understanding the Role of Genes in Health and Disease, Profiled in Science and TED Talk
  • March 19

    TEDTalk (video): Want to prevent genetic disease? Study the healthy … right now: Stephen Friend at TED2014
  • February 5

    Patients Like Me and Sage Bionetworks Launch Open Science Study for People with Parkinson’s Disease
  • January 31

    NPR TED RadioHour: Is Too Much Privacy Bad For Your Health?

2013

  • November 11

    Heritage-Dream, National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge Announces Best Performers
  • November 8

    Canadian and U.S. leaders in cancer research announce a big data challenge to develop robust methodologies for predicting cancer mutations
  • November 7

    Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease Announces a Big Data Challenge to Find New Predictors of Cognitive Decline
  • September 27

    Sage Bionetworks Announces Program to Develop BRIDGE: An IT Platform That Leverages Patient Wisdom and Data for 21st Century Biomedical Research
  • September 23

    Collaborating in Real Time: Sage Bionetworks’ Open Software Platform Enables First Round of Collaborative Cancer Projects on Large Genomic Data Sets
  • June 22

    “Open Science Champion of Change” Sage Bionetworks’ Stephen Friend: Honored at White House Event
  • June 18

    The White House: White House to Highlight Open Science “Champions of Change”
  • June 4

    The Scientist: May the Best Model Win
  • April 19

    DREAM and Sage Bionetworks Announce Big Data Challenges to Impact Biomedical and Clinical Research
  • April 19

    Heritage-Dream, National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Network Inference Prize Announced
  • April 17

    Two Science Translational Medicine Reports: DREAM and Sage Bionetworks Tap into the Wisdom of the Crowd to Fight the Challenge of Breast Cancer Prognosis and Treatment
  • February 19

    The DREAM Project Joins Sage Bionetworks to Enable Collaborative Science
  • February 13

    CommonMind Consortium Expands Public-Private Effort to Generate and Broadly Share Molecular Data on Neuropsychiatric Disease

2012

  • December 19

    H3 Biomedicine Announces Strategic Collaboration with Sage Bionetworks to Advance Cancer-Genomics Research
  • September 12

    Science Translational Medicine: A Model Challenge
  • August 1

    The Scientist: Sage Bionetworks named one of the Best Places to Work Academia, 2012
  • April 9

    CommonMind Consortium Launched as a Public-Private Effort to Generate and Broadly Share Molecular Data on Neuropsychiatric Disease

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