National Institutes of Health · Data Sharing Index Challenge
It was an honor for ConductScience to receive Prize 2 in the NIH S-Index Challenge, alongside six other finalist groups working toward the same goal: giving researchers meaningful credit for data that others can use.
A hard problem, shared
How do you reward the work that makes a dataset reusable, rather than only the paper that first reports it?
That is the question the S-Index Challenge brought to the field. Thank you to Michael F. Chiang and the entire NIH team for convening it, and to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for opening the event with such a clear challenge to the field.
September 2025 · Phase 1
The SHARE Index was selected among seven finalist teams. NIH recognized the proposal, led by Shuhan He with Allison Goff and Henry He, as a unified metric for exemplary data sharing behavior.
Read the NIH Phase 1 announcementJuly 2026 · Phase 2
At the NIH S-Index Innovation Event, ConductScience received Prize 2 alongside six other finalist groups working toward the same goal: making data the currency of science.
See the event announcementThe other finalist groups
Each team approached the challenge from a different part of the research ecosystem. Together, they show how much intellectual work it will take to make high-quality sharing a durable scientific norm.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
A composite S-Index shaped with stakeholder communities to make sharing and reuse visible.
Read the team story02
Great Ecology
A direct question for every dataset: how many researchers has it enabled?
Explore S-index03
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
An adaptive metric designed to reward FAIR, fast, and far-reaching sharing.
Explore theSindex04
Oregon Health & Science University
A measure of responsible, impactful data sharing practices.
Read the NIH team record05
California Medical Innovations Institute
A simple, field-aware S-Index for data sharing across disciplines.
Explore Scholar Data06
Yale School of Medicine
A refined S-Index for promoting and rewarding biomedical data reuse.
Meet the teamOur vision · a chain of scientific custody
For ConductScience, the source of the data is where the work begins. Since 2014, we have grown into a full-stack scientific manufacturing company serving more than 1,200 institutions across 50+ countries, with 4,800+ products. That same rigor earned ConductScience the 2026 NIH Replication Prize.
Instrument output
We build the instruments that create the scientific record: behavioral mazes, stereotaxic surgery systems, histology, microfluidics, imaging, and electrophysiology.
Study record
ConductVision, ConductCognition, ConductColony, and related tools read and write the same study record, keeping data legible across the workflow.
Computable output
ReplicateScience turns open-access papers into reproducible, computable protocols, while ScienceDex brings analytics to where NIH funding flows.
Credit for reuse
SHAREscore evaluates how well data is actually shared. The S-Index carries that signal to the researcher, rewarding reuse downstream of how data is made.
The index is only credible when the chain of context is intact.
From the instrument to the researcher, every handoff can preserve the evidence that makes reuse visible.
SHAREscore is the open standard scoring how well data is actually shared across 76 million datasets today. Where the h-index rewards citations downstream of publication, the S-Index rewards reuse downstream of how data is made.
Keep building together
The work is not finished with a competition. It continues in the instruments, software, methods, records, and datasets that make science easier to reproduce and reuse.
