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The STRIDES Initiative ’ s first partnership was with Google Cloud in July 2018 . Joe Corkery , MD , Director of Product , Healthcare and Life Sciences at Google Cloud , said , “ We ’ re committed to working with the NIH to create the best environment possible for biomedical research to flourish across the country and across the globe . Together , we ’ re eliminating barriers to accessing and making meaning from the most important datasets : the ones that have the potential to advance science and human health .”
Andrea T . Norris , CIO at NIH , added : “ By launching STRIDES , we clearly show our strong commitment to putting the most advanced cloud computing tools in the hands of scientists . Beyond our partnership with
Google Cloud , we will seek to add more industry partners to assure that NIH continues to be well poised to support the future of biomedical research .”
Furthermore , “ teaming with AWS will give NIH researchers powerful cloud-based resources to more efficiently collaborate and analyze data ,” added Norris . “ AWS ’ s long standing leadership in the cloud space will help bolster the innovative research being conducted through NIH support .”
“ We ’ re committed to providing those researchers participating in the STRIDES Initiative with access to high-value NIH datasets , enabling them to further their research to study , treat , and prevent the most devastating diseases ,” said Teresa Carlson , VP at AWS .
AUGUST 2020