Case Study: University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center achieves streamlined research administration and reduced maintenance burden with Advarra's EVAL

UChicago Comprehensive Cancer Center Adopts Industry-Leading Research Administration Technology

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, established in 1973 and one of only two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Illinois with more than 200 researchers and physicians, struggled with decade-old, custom-built research administration systems that didn’t interoperate and were costly to maintain. To streamline CCSG reporting and consolidate publications, investigators and grants data, the center chose Advarra and adopted its EVAL solution.

By implementing Advarra’s EVAL, the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center reduced its system maintenance burden, sunset multiple legacy applications, and redeployed developers to higher‑value projects. Using EVAL’s import and export tools they migrated historical investigator and grant records, gained persistent grant history, and now respond to reporting requests more quickly—improving efficiency, demonstrating research ROI, and benefiting from Advarra’s ongoing maintenance and customer collaboration.

University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Rajan Gopalakrishnan

Director of Informatics