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3.7 Health and Life Science Partnerships
At UMKC, the foundation for their strength in life science lies in interdisciplinary
partnerships and intercollegiate collaborations. Two primary examples of inter-
disciplinary collaborative research at UMKC are located in the Center of Excel-
lence in the Study of Dental and Musculoskeletal Tissues (CEMT) and the Vision
Research Center (VRC).
The CEMT includes investigators from the UMKC Schools of Dentistry,
Medicine, Nursing, Biological Sciences, and Computing and Engineering, while
the VRC is a synergistic collaboration between the UMKC Schools of Medicine
and Pharmacy, Truman Medical Center, as well as other disciplines and schools,
combining clinical and research. The VRC positions Kansas City to become a
national center for eye research where ocular diseases will be studied by top
researchers in the country resulting in the seamless transfer of findings into
practical use with patients.
As a founding stakeholder and supporter of the Kansas City Area Life Science
Institute (KCALSI) and its initiatives, UMKC has forged new partnerships with
community institutions and strengthened existing relationships to expand basic and
applied research capacity. The vast majority of UMKC's faculty in the life and
health sciences have formal affiliations or joint appointments with a partner
institution.
The UMKC School of Medicine has established partnerships with several
clinical affiliates. These include:
• St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City: Serves as a center of medical education
and a primary teaching hospital for the UMKC School of Medicine. It delivers
care to 11 hospitals and related health services in the Kansas City area and
surrounding region. Saint Luke draws sponsorship from the National Institutes
of Health, the American Heart Association, the Saint Luke's Hospital Foun-
dation, and others. Their medical researchers are conducting more than 200
research projects and participating in more than 250 clinical trials.
• Truman Medical Center: A not-for-profit two acute-care hospital health sys-
tem in Kansas City, which also serves as a primary teaching hospital for the
UMKC Schools of Health Sciences.
• Children's Mercy Hospital: A center of excellence for children's clinical care,
medical education, and research.
The UMKC clinical affiliates provide knowledgeable and productive clinical
faculty to enhance research programs, as well as access to patients from diverse
demographic backgrounds presenting a wide variety of clinical conditions. In
addition, the Department of Basic Medical Science has developed strong collab-
orative relationships with UMKC's clinical partners providing opportunity for
translational research. ''Collectively, these relationships enable the School of
Medicine to study basic mechanisms of disease in the laboratory, contribute to the
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