Mission
Research and open science
The Foundation is chartered to conduct research in the public interest and to build open tools, data, and standards that make results easier to check.
What we are chartered to do
Research in the public interest
Biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research, with results published where the public can read them.
Education and training
Programs, workshops, and fellowships for students, researchers, and the general public.
Open tools and standards
Open-access software, data repositories, and standards that support reproducibility and transparency.
Partnerships
Collaboration across academic, clinical, industry, and community organizations.
What that means right now
The research program is in development, and we have no funded awards to announce. What we have been building is the unglamorous part: governance, policy, and the operating record a research organization needs before it can hold federal funding.
The Advance Program is the part of the mission already running. It is education rather than research, and it is where a small organization can do concrete good while the rest is being built.
Open science we use and support
These are built and owned by ConductScience, Inc., a separate company. We name them because our mission depends on work like this existing, not because we own it.