Fulton and Callaway County are strategically located at the heart of a mid-Missouri region that is building a life sciences base around the University of Missouri (20 minutes from Fulton). As one of only a handful of American universities with colleges of agriculture, medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering and law all on the same campus, the University of Missouri-Columbia is sthe catalyst and nucleus for technology transfer to the private sector. Couple this breadth of capacity with facilities and programs at six colleges and universities within a 30-mile radius, the largest educational research reactor in the U.S., the Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center for interdisciplinary research and the highly-anticipated Mid-Missouri Technology Business Incubator, and mid-Missouri emerges as a truly unique region of higher education and collaborative research.