Centers, Institutes & Labs

The Baker Research Lab’s interests concern the welfare of people who are unable to produce adequate saliva either due to genetics, autoimmunity or side effects from treatments. A comprehensive approach to hyposalivation involves not just treatment but also preventative aspects, which are both warranted and viable.

The Telehealth laboratory is dedicated and passionate about studying applications, implementation and usability of virtual platforms in improving access to care for isolated, rural or underserved patients.

The mission of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is to connect University of Missouri health care professionals and basic scientists who have a problem to solve with quantitative experts across campus in fields such as computer science, math, statistics and engineering.

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 difficult moral 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.

The Center for Nano/Micro Systems and Nanotechnology was established in the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri in 2006 to serve the Midwest research community with opportunities for collaboration and to have access to advanced fabrication and characterization equipment. 

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.