This panel brings together relevant speakers and panelists to discuss biomedical data ecosystems, frameworks, best practices and lessons learned to establish the next-generation platform infrastructure to make data more discoverable and accessible, and foster a collaborative research community. Expert presenters and panelists from academia, industry, non-profit and governmental sectors discuss technology solutions as well as the importance to partnerships.

Panelists:

- Nicola Mulder, Professor and head of the Computational Biology, University of Cape Town; PI of H3ABioNet
- Benedict Paten, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
- Geoffrey Siwo, Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
- Russ Taylor, Professor of Astronomy, University of Cape Town
- Susan Veldsman, Director, Scholarly Publishing Unit, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Learn more about the program and any current funding opportunities: https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData

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