On June 30, 2025 we will retire the Nightingale cloud platform in favor of more accessible user terms that allow researchers to use Nightingale data inside their institution.
Nightingale is a project at the Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied AI (CAAI) that provides free access to world-class research data for computational medicine. When we launched Nightingale in 2021, the only way we could accomplish this was to provide access to Nightingale data inside our own managed cloud service.
Since then, we have worked to further liberalize data access. In April 2024, we announced the Nightingale network, an institutional agreement between a research institution and the University of Chicago that allows the partner institution to store Nightingale data and to grant access to their own internal users.
Now, we are pleased to announce new user terms of service that allow individuals at research institutions to use most Nightingale datasets within their research institution without any prior institutional agreement.
With these improvements to data accessibility, we have decided to retire Nightingale Cloud and to exclusively offer access to Nightingale data via Globus data transfer.
What this means for you:
We are excited to continue to support the research community. Please email CAAI with any questions.
