ITM-NorthShore University HealthSystem

Resources & Facilities

For Doing It.

NorthShore Research Institute

1,000

Active Clinical Trials

250+

Principal Investigators

15

Kay Disease Areas of Interest

2

Translational Science-Dedicated Buildings

One hundred years of innovative research and modern facilities collide at the NorthShore Research Institute. The research institute provides the administrative and regulatory support, equipment, facilities, and specialized services you need to make your clinical trial happen – all in one convenient location. From dedicated lab space to the Center for Advanced Imaging, the NorthShore Research Institute is your stop for all things translational science across NorthShore sites.

NorthShore Research Institute Offerings Include
  • Lab Space
  • Office Space
  • CORE Laboratory for Kidney MRI Evaluation
  • Electronic Data Support Services
  • 2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Units
  • Genetic Testing
Big Data and Bioinformatics

The ITM is proud to support the University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics (CRI) led by our ITM’s Informatics Core Leader, Samuel Volchenboum, MD, PhD. CRI services are eligible for ITM Core Subsidy Award support.

REDCap
The Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) resource offers researchers a one-stop-shop and automated tools to collect data, create standardized surveys, and export data to statistical software packages. The ITM partners with the CRI to give you free access to REDCap, as well as free expert consulting and training to help you make the most of this web-based platform that’s already used by more than 693,000 researchers worldwide. Get started.

117

Countries Use REDCap

2,647

Institutes

476,000

Projects

633,000

Researchers

Custom Platform Creation
The CRI Applications Development team builds custom applications for researchers tailored to their projects’ needs. They work on projects at every level of scale and complexity, from Laboratory Information Management Systems to multi-institutional research data networks. Have a great idea but don’t know how to build it?
Get started.
Clinical Research Data Warehouse
The Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW) holds University of Chicago medical data from 2006 to the present, and it’s one of the deepest and most research-ready data repositories of its kind. The CRDW team brings together data from a variety of sources – including Epic electronic medical records, Centricity billing, patient registries, and REDCap – to curate powerful datasets for research. Get started.