News and Updates for CDAS

Requests for Specimen Verification will only be accepted from August 15 to September 12, 2022. If you plan to submit a grant application this cycle, an approved Request for Specimen Verification is required. Once your Request for Specimen Verification has been approved, you will receive a confirmation letter to accompany your grant application.

The grant application deadline is October 11, 2022.

Information is available regarding the PLCO trial and PLCO biospecimens

Please visit the PAR Request Form for Specimen Verification page to preview instructions about the process, review the Policies and Procedures, and begin a Request for Specimen Verification.

If you have any questions, please contact CDAS staff at cdas-eems@imsweb.com.

Preliminary applications will only be accepted from August 12, 2022 to February 10, 2023. If you plan to submit an IDATA Biospecimen application this cycle, an approved preliminary application is required. Once your preliminary application has been approved, you will be notified and you will be able to continue and submit a full application.

The full application deadline is March 29, 2023. The full applications will undergo panel review and final outcome notifications will be sent by the end of May 2023.

Information is available regarding the IDATA study and IDATA biospecimens.

Please visit the IDATA Application for Biospecimens page to preview instructions about the process, review the IDATA Biospecimen Policies and Procedures, and begin an IDATA Preliminary Application for Biospecimens.

If you have any questions, please contact CDAS staff at cdas-idatabio@imsweb.com

Additional details are now available for the PLCO Total GWAS Set and links to the data posting on dbGaP and the GWAS Explorer website have been provided.

Links are provided to the data repositories of several projects with high-throughput results.

• More events and follow-up time, deaths are now censored at December 31, 2018.
• Chest X-ray image linkage to screening data updated.
• Chest X-ray image case/control subset metadata added.

The following updates were made to the NLST datasets available on CDAS:

• More events and follow-up time, deaths are now censored at December 31, 2015.
• Additional images added to image files that are now available.
• Downloadable image collections now available for lung cancer and pathology.