diff --git a/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoDrawer.js b/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoDrawer.js
index 57bfd77b..9f41ef14 100644
--- a/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoDrawer.js
+++ b/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoDrawer.js
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 import React, { PureComponent } from "react";
-import { connect, shallowEqual } from "react-redux";
+import { connect } from "react-redux";
 import { Drawer } from "@blueprintjs/core";
-import Async from "react-async";
 
 import InfoFormat from "./infoFormat";
-import {
-  selectableCategoryNames,
-  createCategorySummaryFromDfCol,
-} from "../../util/stateManager/controlsHelpers";
+import { selectableCategoryNames } from "../../util/stateManager/controlsHelpers";
 
 @connect((state) => {
   return {
@@ -20,44 +16,6 @@ import {
   };
 })
 class InfoDrawer extends PureComponent {
-  static watchAsync(props, prevProps) {
-    return !shallowEqual(props.watchProps, prevProps.watchProps);
-  }
-
-  fetchAsyncProps = async (props) => {
-    const { schema } = props.watchProps;
-    const { annoMatrix } = this.props;
-
-    const allCategoryNames = selectableCategoryNames(schema).sort();
-
-    const nonUserAnnoCategories = allCategoryNames.map((catName) => {
-      const isUserAnno = schema?.annotations?.obsByName[catName]?.writable;
-      if (!isUserAnno) return annoMatrix.fetch("obs", catName);
-      return null;
-    });
-    const singleValueCategories = (
-      await Promise.all(nonUserAnnoCategories)
-    ).reduce((acc, categoryData, i) => {
-      // Actually check to see if it is null(user anno)
-      if (!categoryData) return acc;
-      const catName = allCategoryNames[i];
-
-      const column = categoryData.icol(0);
-      const colSchema = schema.annotations.obsByName[catName];
-
-      const categorySummary = createCategorySummaryFromDfCol(column, colSchema);
-
-      const { numCategoryValues } = categorySummary;
-      //  Add to the array if the category has only one value
-      if (numCategoryValues === 1) {
-        acc.set(catName, categorySummary.allCategoryValues[0]);
-      }
-      return acc;
-    }, new Map());
-
-    return { singleValueCategories };
-  };
-
   handleClose = () => {
     const { dispatch } = this.props;
 
@@ -74,45 +32,31 @@ class InfoDrawer extends PureComponent {
       dataPortalProps,
     } = this.props;
 
+    const allCategoryNames = selectableCategoryNames(schema).sort();
+    const singleValueCategories = new Map();
+
+    allCategoryNames.forEach((catName) => {
+      const isUserAnno = schema?.annotations?.obsByName[catName]?.writable;
+      const colSchema = schema.annotations.obsByName[catName];
+      if (!isUserAnno && colSchema.categories?.length === 1) {
+        singleValueCategories.set(catName, colSchema.categories[0]);
+      }
+    });
+
     return (
       <Drawer
         title="Dataset Overview"
         onClose={this.handleClose}
         {...{ isOpen, position }}
       >
-        <Async
-          watchFn={InfoDrawer.watchAsync}
-          promiseFn={this.fetchAsyncProps}
-          watchProps={{ schema }}
-        >
-          <Async.Pending>
-            <InfoFormat
-              skeleton
-              {...{ datasetTitle, aboutURL, dataPortalProps }}
-            />
-          </Async.Pending>
-          <Async.Rejected>
-            {(error) => {
-              console.error(error);
-              return <span>Failed to load info</span>;
-            }}
-          </Async.Rejected>
-          <Async.Fulfilled>
-            {(asyncProps) => {
-              const { singleValueCategories } = asyncProps;
-              return (
-                <InfoFormat
-                  {...{
-                    datasetTitle,
-                    aboutURL,
-                    singleValueCategories,
-                    dataPortalProps,
-                  }}
-                />
-              );
-            }}
-          </Async.Fulfilled>
-        </Async>
+        <InfoFormat
+          {...{
+            datasetTitle,
+            aboutURL,
+            singleValueCategories,
+            dataPortalProps,
+          }}
+        />
       </Drawer>
     );
   }
diff --git a/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoFormat.js b/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoFormat.js
index eacaa406..880a5f7d 100644
--- a/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoFormat.js
+++ b/client/src/components/infoDrawer/infoFormat.js
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-import { H3, H1, UL, Classes } from "@blueprintjs/core";
+import { H3, H1, UL } from "@blueprintjs/core";
 import React from "react";
 
 import Truncate from "../util/truncate";
 
-const renderContributors = (contributors, affiliations, skeleton) => {
+const renderContributors = (contributors, affiliations) => {
   // eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-condition --  Temp removed contributor section to avoid publishing PII
   if (!contributors || contributors.length === 0 || true) return null;
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>Contributors</H3>
-      <p className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>
+      <H3>Contributors</H3>
+      <p>
         {contributors.map((contributor) => {
           const { email, name, institution } = contributor;
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const renderContributors = (contributors, affiliations, skeleton) => {
           );
         })}
       </p>
-      {renderAffiliations(affiliations, skeleton)}
+      {renderAffiliations(affiliations)}
     </>
   );
 };
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ const buildAffiliations = (contributors = []) => {
   return affiliations;
 };
 
-const renderAffiliations = (affiliations, skeleton) => {
+const renderAffiliations = (affiliations) => {
   if (affiliations.length === 0) return null;
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>Affiliations</H3>
+      <H3>Affiliations</H3>
       <UL>
         {affiliations.map((item, index) => (
-          <div key={item} className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>
+          <div key={item}>
             <sup>{index + 1}</sup>
             {"  "}
             {item}
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ const renderAffiliations = (affiliations, skeleton) => {
   );
 };
 
-const renderDOILink = (type, doi, skeleton) => {
+const renderDOILink = (type, doi) => {
   if (!doi) return null;
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>{type}</H3>
-      <p className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>
+      <H3>{type}</H3>
+      <p>
         <a href={doi} target="_blank" rel="noopener">
           {doi}
         </a>
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ const renderDOILink = (type, doi, skeleton) => {
   );
 };
 
-const renderOrganism = (organism, skeleton) => {
+const renderOrganism = (organism) => {
   if (!organism) return null;
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>Organism</H3>
-      <p className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>{organism}</p>
+      <H3>Organism</H3>
+      <p>{organism}</p>
     </>
   );
 };
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ const ONTOLOGY_KEY = "ontology_term_id";
 const CAT_WIDTH = "30%";
 const VAL_WIDTH = "35%";
 // Render list of metadata attributes found in categorical field
-const renderSingleValueCategories = (singleValueCategories, skeleton) => {
+const renderSingleValueCategories = (singleValueCategories) => {
   if (singleValueCategories.size === 0) return null;
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>Dataset Metadata</H3>
+      <H3>Dataset Metadata</H3>
       <UL>
         {Array.from(singleValueCategories).reduce((elems, pair) => {
           const [category, value] = pair;
@@ -115,11 +115,7 @@ const renderSingleValueCategories = (singleValueCategories, skeleton) => {
           } else {
             // Create the list item
             elems.push(
-              <li
-                className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}
-                key={category}
-                style={{ width: "100%" }}
-              >
+              <li key={category} style={{ width: "100%" }}>
                 <Truncate>
                   <span style={{ width: CAT_WIDTH }}>{`${category}:`}</span>
                 </Truncate>
@@ -138,20 +134,17 @@ const renderSingleValueCategories = (singleValueCategories, skeleton) => {
 
 // Renders any links found in the config where link_type is not "SUMMARY"
 // If there are no links in the config, render the aboutURL
-const renderLinks = (projectLinks, aboutURL, skeleton) => {
+const renderLinks = (projectLinks, aboutURL) => {
   if (!projectLinks && !aboutURL) return null;
   if (projectLinks)
     return (
       <>
-        <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>Project Links</H3>
+        <H3>Project Links</H3>
         <UL>
           {projectLinks.map((link) => {
             if (link.link_type === "SUMMARY") return null;
             return (
-              <li
-                key={link.link_name}
-                className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}
-              >
+              <li key={link.link_name}>
                 <a href={link.link_url} target="_blank" rel="noopener">
                   {link.link_name}
                 </a>
@@ -164,14 +157,9 @@ const renderLinks = (projectLinks, aboutURL, skeleton) => {
 
   return (
     <>
-      <H3 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>More Info</H3>
+      <H3>More Info</H3>
       <p>
-        <a
-          className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}
-          href={aboutURL}
-          target="_blank"
-          rel="noopener"
-        >
+        <a href={aboutURL} target="_blank" rel="noopener">
           {aboutURL}
         </a>
       </p>
@@ -179,24 +167,14 @@ const renderLinks = (projectLinks, aboutURL, skeleton) => {
   );
 };
 
-const NUM_CATEGORIES = 8;
-
-// Generates arbitrary placeholder array for singleValueCategories skeleton shape
-const singleValueCategoriesPlaceholder = Array.from(Array(NUM_CATEGORIES)).map(
-  (_, index) => {
-    return [index, index];
-  }
-);
-
 const InfoFormat = React.memo(
   ({
     datasetTitle,
-    singleValueCategories = new Map(singleValueCategoriesPlaceholder),
-    aboutURL = "thisisabouthtelengthofaurl",
+    singleValueCategories,
+    aboutURL,
     dataPortalProps = {},
-    skeleton = false,
   }) => {
-    if (dataPortalProps.corpora_schema_version === "1.0.0") {
+    if (dataPortalProps.version?.["corpora_schema_version"] !== "1.0.0") {
       dataPortalProps = {};
     }
     const {
@@ -212,15 +190,13 @@ const InfoFormat = React.memo(
 
     return (
       <div style={{ margin: 24, overflow: "auto" }}>
-        <H1 className={skeleton ? Classes.SKELETON : null}>
-          {title ?? datasetTitle}
-        </H1>
-        {renderContributors(contributors, affiliations, skeleton)}
-        {renderDOILink("DOI", doi, skeleton)}
-        {renderDOILink("Preprint DOI", preprintDOI, skeleton)}
-        {renderOrganism(organism, skeleton)}
-        {renderSingleValueCategories(singleValueCategories, skeleton)}
-        {renderLinks(projectLinks, aboutURL, skeleton)}
+        <H1>{title ?? datasetTitle}</H1>
+        {renderContributors(contributors, affiliations)}
+        {renderDOILink("DOI", doi)}
+        {renderDOILink("Preprint DOI", preprintDOI)}
+        {renderOrganism(organism)}
+        {renderSingleValueCategories(singleValueCategories)}
+        {renderLinks(projectLinks, aboutURL)}
       </div>
     );
   }