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Chronic kidney disease patients missing proper care in early stages
The findings of a team led by UMKC pharmacy professor Rafia S. Rasu, Ph.D., recently were published in an international peer-...
read more....Neuroscientist uncovers brain mechanism to drug addiction
UMKC School of Medicine professor John Q. Wang, M.D., Ph.D., and his team of researchers have uncovered a connection between ...
read more.... UMKC-led Team Finds That Drug Prevents Postpartum Hemmorrhage
About half a million women around the world die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. A third of those...
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Overview of Life Sciences at UMKC
| The quest to understand the human body is the burden and the joy of life sciences researchers. At the University of Missouri-Kansas City, that discovery takes several forms: basic bench science, translational research, clinical research, health outcomes research and the technology that enables and advances scientists' work. 
UMKC is one of fewer than 30 universities in the nation to have medicine, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy education programs centrally located on one campus. Seven of UMKC's 12 schools and colleges (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Computing and Engineering) are actively engaged in life sciences research and have formal affiliations with four Kansas City hospitals that conduct biomedical research.
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Medicine Woman: UMKC psychology professor studies impact of herb on AIDS patients in South Africa
Barely 10 inches separated one dying patient from the next.
In the midst of 500 malnourished men and women, each waiting for their time to die, stands a strong, redheaded idealist.
And the inadequacy of idealism alone becomes too real. The hospital is so overflowing with despair there’s no space left for hope.
No time for comfort, no room to breathe. The tears are already forming as she bursts outside to have a good cry in the South African sun. Not five minutes later, Kathy Goggin dr...read more
An interest in the unknown develops into new findings about staph infection
The unknown motivates him. The
independence drives him. But it’s the
experimental side of science that continues
to amaze UMKC researcher and assistant
professor Brian Geisbrecht, Ph.D.
“I love the chance to find something that
you didn’t expect,” he says. “The lure of
the unexpected is really cool. If something
always worked out the way that you thought
it would, we’d be cooking and not doing
science. We’d be following recipes, and
there’s nothing interesting about that.”
La...read more
NIH Grant Advances Critical Bone Cell Research
With technology advancing and people
living longer, preserving the human body
is a primary consideration in medical and
biological research. Lynda Bonewald, Ph.D.,
UMKC Curators’ Professor and the Lee M.
and William Lefkowitz/Missouri Endowed
Professor, is doing her part to advance
understanding in the field of osteocyte bone
cell function, with the goal of discovering
means to prevent and treat bone loss.
Bonewald, director of the UMKC
School of Dentistry Bone Biology Research
Pr...read more
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UMKC's New Health Sciences Building
Dental School Research Lab
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