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President's Highlights - Nov. 2021

Showcasing our Momentum

Today, we鈥檙e introducing a revamped President鈥檚 Highlights that will continue to feature successes across our four universities. This special single-topic edition spotlights our recent October grand opening of the state-of-the-art facility anchoring our systemwide NextGen Precision Health initiative. As we head into the holidays, we want to thank everyone across our institutions who is contributing to this initiative that will improve and save lives in Missouri and beyond.

Ribbon Cutting

On Oct. 19, the 欧美口爆视频 of Missouri celebrated the grand opening of the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building. The event brought in all four universities, as well as federal and state leaders to debut the $221 million and 265,000-square-foot facility. The research coming from this facility will accelerate lifesaving discoveries, pulling together an exceptional set of resources under one roof.

 


Francis Collins

鈥淏reakthroughs that happen here will affect lives of people who don't even know that we're here today,鈥 said NIH Director Francis Collins, who traveled to Columbia to be part of the event. Watch .

 

 

 

 

 

 


Chancellors at NextGen Grand Opening Roy Blunt and Grand Opening

Hear the shared vision of all university chancellors about the vast potential of NextGen鈥檚 future and its connection to historic research breakthroughs across the UM 欧美口爆视频.

In September, the 欧美口爆视频 of Missouri Board of Curators named the building in honor of U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt and his longtime support of our university, higher education and medical research.


Art meets science

While science is the focus of NextGen, the opening events included our incredible performing arts with two original pieces: and from an MU graduate student.

 


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Reviewed 2021-11-17