To recruit 1 million U.S. participants from different backgrounds, the All of Us Research Program is on track to build the most diverse health database of its kind and become one of the largest health research efforts in U.S. history, Intel said in an announcement.
The biomedical data will be made accessible to researchers through the Researcher Workbench, hosted on Google Cloud and powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Intel is funding compute credits to support data curation and research projects to speed COVID-19 discovery and treatment, Intel said.
"The ability to manage, analyze and share data at scale will be critical in this effort to deliver equitable and effective care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We are proud to support this important effort in partnership with All of Us and Intel," said Mike Daniels, vice president of Global Public Sector at Google Cloud.
The All of Us Research Program aims to enable thousands of studies on a wide range of diseases, including COVID-19.
"All of Us is dedicated to serving a diverse body of researchers who can come together to tackle our most pressing health challenges," said Chris Lunt, the chief technology officer of the NIH All of Us Research Program. "We appreciate Intel's contribution of research credits and Google Cloud's computing power to enable novel analysis of our dataset to drive greater understanding of COVID-19."
To date, the program has enrolled more than 366,000 participants and received more than 279,000 biosamples for genomic sequencing, as well as amassed data from more than 233,000 electronic health records (EHRs) and more than 1.34 million completed surveys, according to the announcement.
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