ITM-Rush
Resources & Facilities
For Doing It.
Clinical Research Center
263
# of Researchers Served Since 2007
75%
Average Savings for Study Teams
6,443
Clinical Trial Volunteers Since 1998
6
CRC-Exclusive Services
The ITM’s Clinical Research Center (CRC) is your one-stop-shop for doing your study – at a fraction of the cost of doing it elsewhere. The CRC offers expert research nursing support to do the work, a lab for fast specimen processing, specialized imaging equipment and other tools, as well as a metabolic kitchen that can whip up meals measured down to the required calorie or carbohydrate for your participants. It has served university and industry-sponsored clinical trials for nearly 60 years, and our staff is drop-in friendly to discuss your project at any time. Contact Sonya Redmond-Head, Career Award Program Administrator at srhead@bsd.uchicago.edu for more information
CRC Offerings Include
- Protocol Consultation Services
- Metabolic Kitchen Services
- Indirect Calorimetry
- Core Laboratory Analysis Services
- Sample Processing for Microbiome Analysis
- Clamp Procedure
- Protocol Consultation Services
- Metabolic Kitchen Services
- Mixed Meal Tolerance
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- Inpatient and Outpatient Capacities (12 rooms)
- DEXA Scanner
Access More Information
Hear It From Them
Success Stories
Core Subsidies
2,203,037
Dollars the ITM Has Given Investigators to Use Core Facilities
523
Investigators the ITM has Funded for Core Subsidies
5,000
Maximum Amount Given to Each Investigator Per Project
$300,000
In Awards Given Each Year
Need help designing your study? To store tissue samples? A high-powered microscope for your research?
No need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars you don’t have on equipment, infrastructure, and manpower. The University of Chicago Core Facilities offer you a centralized location for specialized equipment – plus the experienced staff to make the magic happen at a fraction of the cost of doing it yourself.
And the ITM wants to help you take advantage of their resources, awarding up to $5,000 to offset any costs associated with using one of UChicago’s Core Facilities. Applicants are eligible for one award per year.
Scroll through the facilities to see which can best help you with your research, then apply for ITM funding here.
UPDATE: Core subsidy award funding has been expended for this grant year. You may continue submitting applications, but please note that notifications of awards and funding won’t be sent out until after the new grant year begins July 1, 2018.
Reviewers: View Applications Here
Hear It From Them
ITM UChicago Facilities
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.