Health & Life Sciences

UMKC Life Sciences

Did You Know...

UMKC has seven different schools with ongoing research in Health and Life Sciences and is one of fewer than 30 universities in the nation to have Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy all centrally located on one campus
UMKC researchers were funded for more than $50 million in research grants and contracts in 2010.
The UMKC Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, in collaboration with the School of Computing and Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, have developed an internationally renowned program of research on mineralized tissue -- with over $11M a year for research related to bone and teeth.
The School of Nursing recently received a $1.75 million Health & Human Services grant to establish the UMKC Rural Nursing Initiative, designed to increase the numbers of baccalaureate-level registered nurses serving populations in rural areas.
The School of Biological Sciences Fungal Genetic Stock Center (FGSC) recently received a five-year National Science Foundation grant extension to continue operation of the center. The FGSC houses one of the largest collections of fungal samples available to researchers worldwide.
Kevin McCluskey, Ph.D., researcher and curator of the Fungal Genetics Stock Center at the UMKC School of Biological Sciences was elected to the World Federation for Culture Collections Executive Board.
UMKC research on "crosstalk" between muscles and bones was featured at the 2010 International Experimental Biology Conference. A presentation by Marco Brotto, Ph.D., of the UMKC Schools of Nursing and Medicine and director of the UMKC Muscle Biology Group, was selected as one of the Top 30 of more than 6,000 papers submitted to the conference.
The UMKC School of Medicine recently received two five-year grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to expand the school's Internal Medicine and Community & Family Care residency programs.
The UMKC School of Medicine was recently awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for the school's Shock Trauma Research Center to conduct a research program to develop a battlefield treatment strategy for hemorrhagic shock.

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Health & Life Sciences

Did You Know...

UMKC has seven different schools with ongoing research in Health and Life Sciences and is one of fewer than 30 universities in the nation to have Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy all centrally located on one campus

UMKC researchers were funded for more than $50 million in research grants and contracts in 2010.

The UMKC Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, in collaboration with the School of Computing and Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, have developed an internationally renowned program of research on mineralized tissue -- with over $11M a year for research related to bone and teeth.

The School of Nursing recently received a $1.75 million Health & Human Services grant to establish the UMKC Rural Nursing Initiative, designed to increase the numbers of baccalaureate-level registered nurses serving populations in rural areas.

The School of Biological Sciences Fungal Genetic Stock Center (FGSC) recently received a five-year National Science Foundation grant extension to continue operation of the center. The FGSC houses one of the largest collections of fungal samples available to researchers worldwide.

Kevin McCluskey, Ph.D., researcher and curator of the Fungal Genetics Stock Center at the UMKC School of Biological Sciences was elected to the World Federation for Culture Collections Executive Board.

The UMKC School of Medicine recently received two five-year grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to expand the school's Internal Medicine and Community & Family Care residency programs.

The UMKC School of Medicine was recently awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for the school's Shock Trauma Research Center to conduct a research program to develop a battlefield treatment strategy for hemorrhagic shock.