The Mizzou Impact on Research
MU is one of only six public universities in the country with medicine, veterinary medicine, law, engineering and agriculture all on one campus.
Based on the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, MU ranks No. 2 among all institutions in the Association of American Universities in growth of federal research funding from 1995 to 2005.
MU attracts 71.3 percent of the federal research dollars flowing to Missouri's public universities.
MU boasts some of the world's top scientists in wheat, corn and soybean research. The same is true for nanotechnology.
Home to the world's most powerful university research reactor, MU is the largest U.S. producer of radioisotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
MU's Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory conducts more than 300,000 diagnostic tests annually to help determine the cause of death and disease in animals.
MU's Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory is the second-largest animal diagnostic lab in the world.
MU has nearly six times the research capacity of any public university in the state.
MU's National Swine Resource and Research Center is the country's only repository and distribution site for swine models. MU also houses the only Rat Resource and Research Center and one of three regional Mouse Resource and Research Centers in the U.S.
