Big Data Training for Cancer Research

Helping health researchers develop skills for managing, visualizing,
analyzing, and integrating big data

Accepting Applications!

We are accepting applications for the BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop now! Please submit your application HERE.

Application deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025.

What is BigCARE?

Cancer big data is a collection of high-density information from a variety of sources, and it requires sophisticated statistical and computational tools to analyze and extract knowledge. Built on a previous big data training program designed for general biomedical researchers, BigCARE is aimed at helping cancer researchers develop the necessary analytical skills to work with big data, and translate it into knowledge that facilitates precision cancer medicine.

BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop

The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) of the University of California, Irvine is pleased to announce the annual NCI-funded workshop on “Big Data Training for Cancer Research” (BigCARE) on July 7-18, 2025. This intensive workshop will help researchers develop skills for managing, visualizing, analyzing, and integrating various types of omics data in cancer studies. The workshop is open to cancer researchers including oncologists, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students. The workshop will be held on-site at the University of California Irvine, in Irvine, CA. There is no cost for registration, tuition, food, and lodging! Please check our website for updates or email us at bigcare@uci.edu.

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Applications will open soon…

Preparations are in progress for the BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop. Applications will open in February 2025. Please regularly ...
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Tracking Exposure and Spread of Infectious Diseases

Register Monday, July 151 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Phillip Felgner, PhDDirector of the Vaccine Research & Development Center, UC ...
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Systems Biology Approaches in Cancer Research

Register Tuesday, July 161 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Marian Waterman, PhDDeputy Director, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Big Data and Cancer: Where are we going?

Register Wednesday, July 171 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Richard Van Etten, MD, PhDProfessor of Medicine and Biological ChemistryDirector & Senior ...
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Research Misconduct: From Definitions to Prevention

Register Thursday, July 181 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Georg Striedter, PhDProfessor of Neurobiology & Behavior and Research Integrity Officer, UC Irvine
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Overview of Bioconductor for Cancer Research

Register Friday, July 191 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.Sean Davis, MD, PhDAssociate Director, Informatics and Data ScienceProfessor of Medicine, ...
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Integrating Data Types to Understand the Impact of Early-Life Experiences

Register Monday, July 221 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Hal S. Stern, PhDProvost and Executive Vice Chancellor Chancellor’s Professor, Department ...
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UC Irvine and HHS/NIH Health Ecosystem

Register Tuesday, July 231 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Steve A. N. Goldstein, MA, MD, PhD, FAAPVice Chancellor, Health ...
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Around the Corner: Peering into the Future for Personalized Precision Health

Register Tuesday, July 231:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eric Stahlberg, PhDDirector of Cancer Data Science Initiative at the ...
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Utilizing Data to Make Advancements for Cancer

Register Wednesday, July 241 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhDAssociate Director for Informatics and Data Science Program ...
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Application period closed for 2024.

Our team is currently in the midst of reviewing all submissions. For those who have applied, please keep ...
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We are accepting applications for 2024 Workshop!

Please check our APPLY page for more information.
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Summer Workshop Enrollment Ended

The BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop (on-site) enrollment process has ended. The workshop will be held on-site on May 19-28, 2023 ...
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Now Accepting Applications

We are accepting applications for BigCare 2023 online course NOW. Please submit your application HERE. We are hosting this ...
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BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop (on-site)

Purdue University Center for Cancer Research (PCCR) and Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (IUSCCC) are pleased to ...
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BigCare 2023 Online Course 

We are pleased to announce a BigCare online course for self-paced learning in 2023! [Flyer] There is no cost ...
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Meet Our Team

  • Min Zhang, MD, PhD

    Professor
    Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    UC Irvine

  • Dabao Zhang

    Professor

    Epidemiology & Biostatistics

    UC Irvine

  • Sean Davis

    Professor; Associate Director of Informatics and Data Science

    University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine

  • Eric Adams

    Senior Manager, User Support,
    RCAC, Purdue University

  • Jenny Wu

    Jenny Wu

    Director of Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

    UC Irvine

  • Ryan T DeRue

    Senior Computational Scientist,
    RCAC, Purdue University

Contact us at bigcare@uci.edu

But please first visit our FAQ below,  to see if your questions have already been answered.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cancer researchers including oncologists, faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students who are inexperienced in big data science. For graduate students, we require you to pass the qualification/preliminary exam to apply.

All applicants will be required to have finished coursework related to cancer biology, to have research training in cancer studies, and to have taken one graduate level class in statistics.

To apply to the workshop, applicants must complete the online application. It calls for applicants to provide personal information, a summary of education background, a research statement (at most 2000 characters), an NIH biosketch, and completion of a questionnaire which helps us assess your statistical/computing skills. Additionally, graduate students/post-docs/research staff will be asked for a letter of support from their mentor(s) that clearly states that they are supportive of your participation in the program and recognize the time commitment necessary to successfully complete the program.

You need to provide the CITI training certificate, complete pre-course survey, go through the pre-course materials, and set up accounts for accessing supercomputer as preparation for the training program. Instructions will be provided once you are enrolled.

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