News & Press Releases
2020
November 18
Collaborating with youth is key to studying mental-health managementNovember 5
Sage Joins DAPI Project for Down Syndrome ResearchOctober 9
Discovering Keys That Could Unlock Better Personalized Treatments to Destroy CancerSeptember 16
‘The Playbook’ Is Essential Guide for Developing & Deploying Digital Clinical MeasuresSeptember 3
National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data Enclave LaunchedMarch 2
Press Release: DM Dream ChallengeFebruary 13
Sage Joins Open Wearables InitiativeJanuary 13
The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Sage Bionetworks Launch $25,000 BEAT-PD DREAM Challenge
2019
November 8
DREAM Challenges Announces Changes in Its Leadership That Support a Rich Future in Open BenchmarkingOctober 22
Sage Bionetworks Appoints Ljubomir Bradic as Director of DesignOctober 1
PRESS RELEASE: Bringing Open Science to Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’sSeptember 13
LAUNCH: Privacy Design Toolkit for Mobile HealthSeptember 5
Press Release: CommonHealth Will Enable Android™ Phone Users to Access and Share their Electronic Health Record Data with Trusted Apps and PartnersMay 20
Nerve Fibers in Skin Are Involved in Initiating Neurofibromas in Patients with Disfiguring Neurofibromatosis 1May 15
Sage Announces Scientific Advisory BoardMarch 18
Sage Welcomes 3 New Board MembersJanuary 10
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Generated from Human NF1 Associated Plexiform Neurofibromas made available to the research community
2018
November 18
Wellcome Trust partners with Sage Bionetworks to launch Wellcome Data Re-use PrizesOctober 4
Winners of Sage Digital Health Catalyst Program AnnouncedJuly 20
Sage Bionetworks launches interactive, web-based explorer, Agora in conjunction with NIH-led AMP-AD Target Discovery and Preclinical Validation ProjectJune 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 WorkApril 5
Leading Cancer Research Organizations Jointly Unveil Comprehensive Immunotherapy Tool to Analyze Interactions Between Tumors and Immune MicroenvironmentMarch 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 ScienceAugust 21
Novartis launches first large-scale research study in multiple sclerosis that allows participants to contribute from smartphonesAugust 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 anemiaJuly 10
DREAM Challenge Community competition launches to learn how to use smartphone and wearable sensors to monitor healthJune 2
IBM and Sage Bionetworks announce winners of first phase of DREAM Digital Mammography ChallengeJune 1
First Analysis of AACR Project GENIE Data Published, demonstrating potential of data-sharing initiatives to accelerate the pace of progress against cancerMay 17
Sage supported Mobile Health App for Bipolar Patients Wins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mood ChallengeMarch 2
Parkinson’s researchers use smartphones to measure disease progression, treatment effects in clinical substudyFebruary 14
Sharing Skin-Selfies for Science: melanoma study releases participant generated smartphone data to research community worldwideFebruary 1
Cancer Research Institute Awards Grant to Develop Powerful Genomic Data Resource for Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers
2016
December 1
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Cancer Research Institute Launch Collaboration on Cancer NeoantigensSeptember 7
The Digital Mammography DREAM ChallengeAugust 3
International team launches community competition to unravel how cancer changes a cell’s RNAJuly 20
Sage Bionetworks Advocates for Open Systems in Health ResearchJuly 6
TSRI Awarded $20 Million for U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort ProgramApril 11
Researchers from Mount Sinai and Sage Bionetworks Report Analysis of Nearly 600,000 Genomes for Resilience ProjectMarch 21
Sage Bionetworks Uses Participant Feedback to Update mPower AppMarch 3
Sage Bionetworks Releases First-of-Its-Kind Data from Parkinson’s iPhone Study
2015
November 16
International Team Announces Crowdsourcing Competition, Running on Google Cloud Platform, To Understand How Cancers Originate And EvolveNovember 5
Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Announce Winners of ALS Stratification ChallengeOctober 19
Winners Recognized for Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Competition to Drive Innovation in Prostate Cancer ResearchOctober 15
Sage Bionetworks Launches Mole Mapper, an iPhone-app Research Study to Better Understand MelanomaOctober 12
International Consortium Trailblazing the Genomic Classification of Colorectal Cancer Through Big DataSeptember 22
AstraZeneca supports crowd sourcing challenge to find new combination therapies for cancerAugust 17
Project Data Sphere, LLC Executive AppointmentsJune 24
New Prize Competition Hopes to Boost Discovery of Novel Breast Cancer Genetic PathwaysJune 23
Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Launch an Open Science Challenge to Find Clues to Understanding Heterogeneity in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)March 9
Sage Bionetworks and The Michael J. Fox Foundation Collaborate to Amplify Parkinson’s Patient Voice in ResearchMarch 9
Sage Bionetworks Launches Parkinson mPower App to Study Parkinson’s Disease Symptom VariationMarch 9
Sage Bionetworks Launches “Share the Journey” iPhone App to Study Breast CancerMarch 9
Sage Bionetworks Launches “Share the Journey,” A Mobile App-Based Research Study for the Breast Cancer Community
2014
June 2
DREAM and Sage Bionetworks Open Three Big Data Challenges to Impact Biomedical and Clinical ResearchJune 2
Big Data Challenge for Alzheimer’s Disease Launches in Global Effort to Use Innovative Open Science Techniques to Improve Diagnosis and TreatmentMay 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 TalkFebruary 5
Patients Like Me and Sage Bionetworks Launch Open Science Study for People with Parkinson’s Disease
2013
November 11
Heritage-Dream, National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge Announces Best PerformersNovember 8
Canadian and U.S. leaders in cancer research announce a big data challenge to develop robust methodologies for predicting cancer mutationsNovember 7
Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease Announces a Big Data Challenge to Find New Predictors of Cognitive DeclineSeptember 27
Sage Bionetworks Announces Program to Develop BRIDGE: An IT Platform That Leverages Patient Wisdom and Data for 21st Century Biomedical ResearchSeptember 23
Collaborating in Real Time: Sage Bionetworks’ Open Software Platform Enables First Round of Collaborative Cancer Projects on Large Genomic Data SetsJune 22
“Open Science Champion of Change” Sage Bionetworks’ Stephen Friend: Honored at White House EventApril 19
DREAM and Sage Bionetworks Announce Big Data Challenges to Impact Biomedical and Clinical ResearchApril 19
Heritage-Dream, National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Network Inference Prize AnnouncedApril 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 TreatmentFebruary 19
The DREAM Project Joins Sage Bionetworks to Enable Collaborative ScienceFebruary 13
CommonMind Consortium Expands Public-Private Effort to Generate and Broadly Share Molecular Data on Neuropsychiatric Disease