Innovator-driven, community-based drug discovery.

Researchers form communities, find what they need, and share what they publish.

Communities

ColaboFest 2026

The annual cross-lab hackathon — open to anyone entering a project with the ColaboFest challenge. Membership follows your project, not a separate signup.

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The Health Excellence Research Education Program cohort at UAB. Junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows across five institutions, each writing toward a named funding opportunity in population and community-engaged health research.

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UAB Neuro-oncology

The UAB Neuro-oncology group's shared space for lab expertise, techniques, and resources — the successor to the spring-retreat spreadsheet. Posting requires being a member of the group.

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From the community

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Conference or talk

2026 SPARC Drug Discovery ColaboFest: proposals close 30 September

September 7, 2026 · 2 min read

Case study

25th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD 2026)

September 4, 2026 · 1 min read

2026 SPARC Drug Discovery Collabofest Challenge

Move promising drug-discovery projects from computational discovery to experimental validation. Submission deadline: September 30, 2026.

What teams submit

Teams — with at least one co-investigator from UAB or the CCTS Partner Network — submit a short 3-page proposal describing:

check_circleA new target
check_circleScientific rationale
check_circleSPARC support needed
check_circleA plan for wet-lab validation

Why it matters

The goal is to help promising projects move from computational discovery to experimental validation — creating new collaborations, generating pilot data, and supporting future grants and publications, while positioning SPARC as a central hub for drug discovery innovation at UAB.