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Awards and Honors

School of Medicine advances clinical reasoning education

(1/22/26) The University of Missouri School of Medicine was recently selected as one of 12 U.S. medical schools to receive grants to help enhance clinical ...

Barry Edwards, an associate professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine

Research

Shining a spotlight on cancer

(1/14/26) To determine who could benefit from targeted cancer treatments, a researcher at the University of Missouri is putting tumors under the spotlight. ...

man having chest pain

Research

Increasing Muscle Elasticity Improves Heart Failure

(1/13/26) If someone’s in heart failure, that means their heart is no longer able to ...

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Awards and Honors

Alumni Spotlight: Dee Fenner, MD ‘85

(12/19/25) Dr. Dee Fenner, Mizzou alum, now chairs Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of ...

Kristin Sohl, MD a pediatrician at MU Health Care

Research

AI-Assisted Device Can Improve Autism Care Access

(12/18/25) Access to autism evaluations through specialty health care is notorious for long wait times ...

Raghuraman Kannan

Awards and Honors

Raghuraman Kannan, PhD, named 2025 NAI Fellow

(12/15/25) Two professors at the University of Missouri are joining the ranks of the most ...

Mature Man With Sleep Apnea Wearing A CPAP Mask In Bed Sleeping

Research

Untreated Sleep Apnea Linked to Increased Mortality

(12/12/25) A new study published in npj Aging, one of the leading journals in gerontology ...

Neuroscience Spinal Cord Injury research group

Research

Cell Transplantation Boosts Health After Spinal Cord Injury

(12/11/25) Researchers learn that transplanting young nerve cells to the spinal cord injury site improved ...