MURR staff and their colleagues at the University of Missouri have fostered an environment for research for improving medical diagnostic tools, finding ways to battle cancer and other diseases with radioisotopes, preventing serious illnesses with screenings to reach optimal nutritional intake, improving the quality of life and knowledge base for people worldwide, analyzing materials and artifacts to help better understand the history of our planet and its people – and investigating materials to reveal their properties, fostering greater improvement of our understanding of matter and energy.

• Life Sciences
  MURR is a leader in radiopharmaceutical research, trace element epidemiology, boron neutron capture therapy and radioisotope tracer technology.
  
  
• Social Sciences
  Ever wanted to know more about Incan burial sites, and how/where our ancestors lived out their lives?  That’s what makes the science of archaeometry so exciting.
  
  
• Material Sciences 
  MURR uses the neutrons produced by it's 10 MW reactor to investigate the structure and dynamics of materials as well as modifying their properties.
  
  
• Engineering
  (Under construction)


Interested in research opportunities at MURR? Contact Dr. David Robertson, Director of Research at MURRResearchDirector@missouri.edu