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Check out this interview with our director, Sam Volchenboum, MD, PhD, about how large sets of patient data (like that available in the CRDW) can be used to streamline care, empower patients, and improve healthcare outcomes.

The Structure of Health Care: How Patient Data Impacts Quality of Care

A team of University of Chicago scientists is working to find ways to repurpose generic and over-the-counter drugs to treat zoonotic diseases, potentially making treatment for these infections more affordable and accessible worldwide. The CRI Bioinformatics Core’s resources and expertise allowed them to run fast, efficient analyses of the drugs’ effectiveness. Read about their work at the Institute for Translational Medicine.

A CRI-led paper published this month in PLOS ONE introduced the scientific community to ExScalibur, a new set of state-of-the-art pipelines for the bioinformatics analysis of Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) data. Read more.

Data storage users with existing labshares can now take advantage of the CRI’s new data archival service. Our system allows researchers to securely archive data that is not in active use, save money on long-term storage, and comply with regulatory and grant requirements regarding data retention. Learn more in our Archival Storage User Guide.

This month, the March of Dimes Foundation announced a collaboration with the University of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Duke Medicine to create a new March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center focused on determining the currently unknown factors causing premature birth.

Under the leadership of PI and Program Director Carole Ober, PhD, the University of Chicago Medicine will have the lead role in this project, to which March of Dimes will contribute $10 million over the next five years. The Center for Research Informatics will contribute bioinformatics and computing resources to this important research.

Read more about the center and the CRI’s contributions here.