Case Study: Melanoma Research Alliance improves peer review and tracks research impact with ProposalCentral from Altum

ProposalCentral Helps Melanoma Research Alliance Select the Right Researchers, Measure Impact

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), a nonprofit dedicated to funding melanoma research, needed an efficient and transparent system to manage its entire grants process, from peer review to long-term impact tracking. To address this, MRA partnered with Altum and utilized its ProposalCentral grants management platform to streamline operations and measure the outcomes of its funding.

Altum's solution provided MRA with a comprehensive system for managing peer review and, critically, integrated tools for tracking research impact through ORCID and Crossref. By using ProposalCentral to register all grants with digital object identifiers (DOIs), MRA became the first Altum client to achieve 100% grant registration, enabling perfect transparency into how its funding leads to publications and major findings. This allows the streamlined MRA team to efficiently manage its entire grant-making operation and definitively prove the impact of its research investments.

Melanoma Research Alliance

Kristen Mueller

Senior Director, Scientific Program