The Secure Data Analysis Platform Development Team (SeDAP) – Ciearro Faulk, Stephen Galla and Adrian Meyer – have won an Information Techology Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The trio developed a computing environment combining high accessibility, high security, and high data throughput within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Its main objective is to enable collaboration for multi-disciplinary and multi-locational research teams while leveraging existing knowledge, resources, talents, and tools.
SeDAP was conceptualized and is operated by the Integrated Cancer Information and Surveillance System (ICISS) and was built and is maintained by ITS Research Computing. ICISS provides a prospective data linkage between metrics of cancer incidence, mortality, and burden in North Carolina and data sources at an individual and aggregate level that describe health care, economic, social, behavioral, and environmental patterns.