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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.
Four
distinct technology areas in the life sciences are a strong
fit for out unique combination of assets in the Fulton area
and mid-Missouri. They are:
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