# N3C & All of Us Research Program Collaborative Project

> **NIH NIH UL1** · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $346,608

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented clinical and public health challenges. Though institutions
collect large amounts of clinical data about COVID-19 cases, these datasets individually might not be diverse
enough to draw population level conclusions. Also, statistical, machine learning, and causal analyses are most
successful with large-scale data beyond what is available in any given organization. To tackle this problem,
NCATS introduced the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), an open science, community-based initiative
to share patient level data for analysis. The initiative requires participating institutions to share information about
their COVID-19 patients in a standard-driven way, including demographics, vital signs, diagnoses, laboratory
results, medications, and other treatments. The data from multiple institutions will be merged and consolidated,
and access will be provided to investigators through a centralized analytical platform. The COVID-19 data
sharing collaboration with the N3C initiative offers a mechanism to initiate collaborations with other NIH
sponsored data sharing programs, such as the All of Us Research Program (AoURP).
This administrative supplement will support efforts to clean and standardize data at VCU, and to transfer
it to the N3C data repository. The supplement will also assist in introducing new services at the Wright
Center to support our investigators to use the N3C resources. It will also enable collaboration with the
AoURP by establishing a pipeline to collect and transmit consented patients' EHR data and by building
on existing community outreach pathways to recruit additional participants for the AoURP. The project
will be overseen by the PI/Executive Committee and supervised by the Director of Research Informatics.
Procedures and services developed at our local CTSA hub will be shared and disseminated to the CTSA
network.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10217339
- **Project number:** 3UL1TR002649-03S3
- **Recipient organization:** VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** FREDERICK Gerard MOELLER
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $346,608
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-08-22 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10217339

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10217339, N3C & All of Us Research Program Collaborative Project (3UL1TR002649-03S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10217339. Licensed CC0.

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