Collaboration with the DP-Next project :tada:
The Novo Nordisk Foundation’s annual Steno National Collaborative Grant for 2024 was awarded to Steno Aarhus for a project called DP-Next. We at Seedcase will be collaborating with them on their data infrastructure, engineering, and the (technical) training aspects of the project.
Novo Nordisk Foundation has a series of grants aimed at encouraging collaboration across Steno centers called Steno National Collaborative Grant. Last year, the grant was awarded to a project titled Sustainable Type 2 Diabetes Prevention for the 21st Century (DP-Next), lead by Daniel Witte at Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, where I am the lead on part of Work Package 1.
This is the summary of the project:
“DP-Next is a project aimed at developing a sustainably effective strategy for prevention of Type 2 Diabetes […] We call it DP-Next because we intend to develop the next generation of Diabetes Prevention strategies.
We aim to use [modern or underutilised methods and resources] to design and deliver a sustainably effective strategy for prevention of T2D in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.” — DP-Next
Work Package 1 is focused on both the general management of the DP-Next project as well as on ensuring that the research follows open and reproducible practices. My role in this work package is on the second part. While I have a variety of tasks to complete, many of them have a direct overlap with what we do in the Seedcase Project or can make heavy use of the expertise we’ve been developing in Seedcase.
So, because of this, we in Seedcase will be collaborating with the DP-Next project! This is a very exciting opportunity for us as it will be our first collaboration, and the first time we’ll be using our tools and training to enable and support a larger, multi-center project.
We have many things still to discuss about our involvement, but the tasks we will very likely be contributing with are:
- Setting up and building the data infrastructure
- Designing the data structure and pipeline
- Processing and structuring data after collection
- Training DP-Next members on more technical tools and practices, such as in using Git and GitHub
The DP-Next project doesn’t officially start until September 2025, so we still have some planning and discussing to do before settling on our tasks and involvement. We’re also super excited to be working on a project that is spread across all of Denmark and to the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which will give us the opportunity to spread awareness of many of the practices Seedcase aims to promote and develop.
We’ll post regular updates and lessons learned as we begin our collaboration later in the year! 🎉