Centers, Institutes & Labs

The Cardiac Cellular Physiology laboratory researches fundamental aspects of heart muscle cell function, and examines pathological alterations in muscle cell function in diseases including heart failure, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmia.

Helping you become a more valuable member of MU Health Care.

The MU Center for Health Ethics seeks to address complex ethical issues through dialogue across multiple related disciplines and in the broader academic and public community.

The Center for Health Policy (CHP) is an objective, nonpartisan center of excellence committed to addressing questions of access to quality, affordable health care.

MU PCOR is a multi-disciplinary Center within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Through a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), we were funded to build capacity for and promote patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) at Mizzou, collaborate on interventions to change practice, and focus on work with large data sets.

The Center for Precision Medicine aims to be the leader in improving the quality of patient care with targeted prevention, precise diagnosis and personalized treatments.

The primary mission of CHRI is to facilitate research activities, scholarship and innovation within the Department of Child Health and the University of Missouri at large with the ultimate goal of fostering optimal health care and wellness to all children living in mid-Missouri and beyond.

The Bond Life Sciences Center at MU was designed with teamwork in mind. Our unique facilities and innovative culture allow researchers to form collaborations rarely seen on college campuses to solve problems in human and animal health, the environment and agriculture.

The University of Missouri Clinical & Translational Science Unit brings scientific discovery to the realm of patient care by supporting patients, volunteers and researchers who participate in clinical trials and other forms of clinical research. 

The CASH Lab examines the bidirectional relationship between sleep and cognition in older adults. The lab also investigates potential moderating factors (e.g., sex, pain, medication) of sleep/cognition associations. The CASH Lab evaluates cognitive interventions and employs behavioral, neuroscience, and statistical (e.g., meta-analytic) methods to answer novel research questions in these areas.