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Searching for Even Bigger Ways to Address the Pandemic?

Leverage National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data

Researchers across the University of Michigan planning COVID-19 trials can now take advantage of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) to inform their research hypotheses.

Connected to U-M through MICHR’s Network Based Research Unit, the National COVID Cohort Collaborative aims to improve the efficiency and accessibility of analyses with COVID-19 clinical data, expand researchers’ ability to analyze and understand COVID, and demonstrate a novel approach for collaborative pandemic data sharing. The goal of N3C is to enable rapid collaboration among clinicians, researchers, and data scientists to identify treatments, specialize care, and reduce the overall severity of COVID-19. 

N3C works to provide the infrastructure that generates efficient and minimally biased results. Available infrastructure and data includes:

  • Ventilator support

  • ICU use

  • Definitions of COVID-19 cases

Collaborators like the University of Michigan may contribute and use COVID-19 clinical data to answer critical research questions to address the pandemic. The N3C is systematically collecting data derived from electronic health records from different institutions and harmonizing these data in the NCATS N3C Data Enclave, a centralized resource available for collaborative research. This allows for data from all contributors to be structured in the same way.

“The N3C data enclave is one of the largest, most secure clinical data resources for accelerating and collaborating on COVID-19 research,” explained David Hanauer, MD, Director, MICHR Informatics Program; Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Assistant Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core. “This very large and impressive data set is available to U-M researchers at no cost.” 

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N3C by the Numbers

Release Set: January 29, 2021

  •  Sites: 39

  •  Persons: 2.8 million

  •  COVID+ Cases: 575,445

  •  Total Number of Rows: 3.3 billion

  •  Clinical Observations: 237.0 million

  •  Lab Results: 1.5 billion

  •  Medication Records: 549.7 million

  •  Procedures: 191.7 million

  •  Visits: 158.5 million

Learn more about the N3C. View the checklist of requirements to request access to the N3C data enclave and data. Please register here, then submit a Data Use Request. 

N3C offers a variety of events and workshops to explore data methods, validation, collaborative analytics, data governance, and more. View the calendar of events.

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