National Institutes of Health, a US medical research agency, has partnered with Google Cloud services for new initiative that aims to utilize the power of commercial cloud computing and provide biomedical researchers access to the most advanced, cost-effective computational infrastructure, tools and services.

The initiative has been named as STRIDES (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability) will minimize economic and technological barriers to access and compute on large biomedical data sets to accelerate biomedical advances.

“NIH is in a unique position to bring together academic and innovation industry partners to create a biomedical data ecosystem that maximizes the use of NIH-supported biomedical research data for the greatest benefit to human health,” NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, said in a statement late on Tuesday.

“The STRIDES Initiative aims to maximize the number of researchers working to provide the greatest number of solutions to advancing health and reducing the burden of disease,” he added.

The special partnership with Google creates a good and cost-efficient framework for NIH researchers, as well as researchers at more than 2,500 academic institutions across the country by receiving NIH support, to make use of Google Cloud’s storage, computing, and machine learning technologies.

Apart from that, it will also enable the establishment of training programmes for researchers at NIH-funded institutions to utilize Google Cloud Platform, the statement said.

“Today, we are announcing a partnership with the National Institutes of Health to make it easier to access and analyze large biomedical data sets, which we believe will accelerate efforts to find treatments and cures for disease,” said Diane Greene, CEO at Google Cloud.

The organization, NIH, will firstly focus its efforts on making NIH high-value data sets more accessible through the Cloud, leveraging partnerships to take advantage of data-related innovations like machine learning and artificial intelligence, and experimenting with new ways to optimize technology-intensive research.

“Through our partnership with NIH… we are making it easier for scientists and physicians to access and garner insights from NIH-funded data sets with appropriate privacy protections, which will ultimately accelerate biomedical research progress toward finding treatments and cures for the most devastating diseases of our time,” explained Gregory Moore, Vice President-Healthcare, Google Cloud.

Google Cloud Services is cloud computing based services through which data can be stored online with utmost safety and security and can be accessed on any device with internet connection.

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