I am pleased to announce that BARDA and its HHS partners have launched a data challenge competition to develop algorithms that could help healthcare providers predict which among their pediatric patients with COVID-19 are likely to develop severe COVID-19 complications.
The challenge is sponsored by BARDA DRIVe, and includes partnerships with two National Institutes of Health institutes (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)), and the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal & Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The total cash prize purse is $200,000, split among up to three winners. Winners may also be eligible to apply for follow-on support from BARDA for further technology development and clinical evaluation.
If you have innovators in your network that are interested in developing computational models to help determine which pediatric COVID-19 patients are likely to develop severe illness and complications, such as multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), please have them check out this new challenge competition.
