{"id":7841,"date":"2023-01-26T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:46:14","slug":"saving-lives-through-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/saving-lives-through-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving lives through innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi presenting to MU School of Medicine faculty and staff.\" class=\"wp-image-7843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-1536x1143.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/SOM-visit-scaled-1-2048x1524.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The MU School of Medicine is the leading source of physicians for Missouri. Our alumni are critical partners in addressing the state\u2019s health care needs, especially in rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently met with around 120 faculty and staff from the school who joined me both in-person and over Zoom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>I shared campus highlights, as well as their notable increase in total research proposals (150%) and sponsored research expenditures (122%). These are important metrics that show a strong commitment to Mizzou\u2019s research mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MizzouForward and the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building are drawing even more talented medical faculty to Columbia. Investments like the Clinical Translational Science Unit in NextGen will help medical researchers move innovations from bench to bedside faster than ever before. Partnerships with industry leaders, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muhealth.org\/our-stories\/new-robotic-system-offers-precise-way-open-arteries\">Siemens Healthineers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2021\/mu-research-reactor-to-supply-radioisotope-for-targeted-cancer-therapy\/\">Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis company<\/a>, expand our capacity to create breakthrough treatments for heart disease and cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical faculty are engaged in a range of outreach, including free online trainings for Missouri physicians treating patients who experienced childhood trauma. The school also hosts pipeline programs that bring more physicians to rural communities. The results are clear \u2013 more than half of our medical grads (55%) stay in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the medical field, and in all corners of Missouri, Mizzou faculty, staff and alumni are making a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MU School of Medicine is the leading source of physicians for Missouri. Our alumni are critical partners in addressing the state\u2019s health care needs, especially in rural areas. I recently met with around 120 faculty and staff from the school who joined me both in-person and over Zoom.&nbsp;I shared campus highlights, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}