News and Announcements
Treating bad genes
View a video featuring NextGen Precision Health researcher Chris Lorson, who is giving hope to families dealing with incurable genetic diseases like spinal muscular atrophy and Charcot-Marie Tooth.
Rise of the elderberry
MU Research Assistant Professor Andrew Thomas received a $5.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to move the antioxidant-rich elderberry into mainstream production and processing.
Transforming research
MizzouForward, a $1.5 billion investment in research and education, includes a plan to hire up to 150 new researchers and upgrades for instrumentation, high-performance computing and advanced equipment core facilities.
Making vintage trendy
Running Hype & Stripes has taught Houston how to manage employees, comply with complicated regulations and promote his business using social media. Daily posts that feature customers and offer sneak peaks of new inventory have been very effective.
Entrepreneurship training opens the door to business ownership for veterans
MU's EBV program teaches participants key concepts of business ownership through workshops and lessons from entrepreneurial leaders and local partners.
Upcycling and repurposing
When Mizzou law student Georgiana Gnibus started her company, Rad By Design, her friends joked that she was building a “tube top empire.” Now after selling an expanded inventory of hundreds of original designs to both men and women via Instagram and winning more than $2,000 in funding, Gnibus has opened a brick-and-mortar store in the MU Student Center.
MU ingenuity provides solutions for a better life
Patenting an invention and using it as the foundation for a new business is never a solo endeavor, according to Jim Fay, serial inventor and keynote speaker at MU’s April 29 “Taking Your Ideas to Market” virtual event.
Bringing ideas to life
Mizzou supports faculty, staff and students involved in commercialization activities with education and training, translational research programs, industry partnerships and more. Their work fuels economic growth and improves lives in Missouri and beyond.
MU Licenses Patented Screening Technology for Autism
Judith Miles, professor emerita of child health and genetics, and Gary Yao, professor of biomedical, biological and chemical engineering, developed a device and associated software that makes it possible to track and measure these movements in children at an earlier age than was previously possible.
Grit and Passion
Four intense years of research, building a niche market, innovating and raising capital paid off for Roo Storage.