About NIH Common Fund programs

The NIH Common Fund programs generate datasets from a variety of projects ranging from genomics to phenotypes. The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) aims to facilitate improved discovery, reuse, integration, and analyses of these datasets to form novel hypotheses for accelerating discoveries in biomedical research. The CFDE is organized around five Centers that integrate data, resources, and knowledge from many Common Fund Programs. The resources created by the Centers empower the research community to use Common Fund data sets for novel scientific research that was impossible before.