Case Study: Indiana University School of Medicine achieves greater project efficiency and faster research paper writing with MindManager

Indiana University School of Medicine cancer researcher uses MindManager to manage research collaborations and write academic papers

Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Thomas O’Connell, PhD, head of the O’Connell Lab, faced the challenge of coordinating 5–10 concurrent cancer and metabolomics projects, managing experiments, collaborators, data, and the steady stream of papers and grant applications. To address these organizational and writing pressures he adopted MindManager as his daily project‑management and writing tool.

Using MindManager, O’Connell created a central master dashboard linked to individual project maps to track tasks, resources, staff assignments and experimental findings, and to outline manuscripts and grant proposals. MindManager enabled him to easily manage 5–10 projects from a single view, improve resource utilization and team collaboration, reduce writing stress, and speed experiment completion—delivering clear gains in project efficiency and research productivity.

Indiana University School of Medicine

Thomas O'Connell

Associate Professor