R&D

COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Set to Begin in Missouri

Missouri’s Washington University School of Medicine and the St. Louis University Center for Vaccine Development are joining clinical trials organized by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in response ... Read More

Missouri Scientist Receives $1.4 Million Grant for Smart Farm Research

A scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded $1.4 million in federal funding to advance a fully automated crop monitoring platform. Danforth Center ... Read More

Chewy, Inc. Selects Missouri for ECommerce Fulfillment Center, 1,200 New Jobs

Chewy, Inc., a pet supply company, announced the opening of a new 800,000 sq. ft. eCommerce fulfillment center in Belton, Missouri. The online retailer of pet food and pet-related products say ... Read More

Missouri’s Kansas City Region Ranks High for New Investment, Business Growth

Kansas City, Missouri, is high on the list for officials guiding where companies locate new offices and facilities, according to a new survey. The Missouri city was among 11 mid-sized cities ... Read More

Missouri Companies Continue to Grow Workforce Despite COVID-19

While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused companies across the world to lay off workers, many companies in Missouri have continued to see their local workforces grow. Centene Corp., a health innovation ... Read More

Researchers & Companies Across Missouri Look for New Ways to Feed the World

On research farms across the Midwest and at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, researchers continue to work to find new crop technology, new ways to grow ... Read More

Missouri Announces $50 Million Broadband Expansion to Aid in COVID-19 Recovery Effort

Missouri Governor Mike Parson recently announced nearly $50 million to support broadband expansion across Missouri. Funding for the new programs comes in large part from the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund and ... Read More

Health Innovation Company Set to Begin Clinical Trial on New Drug to Treat COVID-19

Confluence Discovery Technologies, a health innovation company based in St. Louis, Missouri, is set to begin an in-patient clinical trial on an investigational new drug application to be used as treatment ... Read More

Missouri is Leading the Way in the Health Innovation Industry

Cutting-edge biomedical research is taking place across Missouri in world-renowned research hospitals and innovation districts such as the Cortex Innovation Community and the Missouri Innovation Center. Cerner, Centene, and Express Scripts ... Read More

Missouri Scientists Launch Specimen Bank to Aid Research in Fight Against COVID-19

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, are collecting samples from hundreds of people who have had COVID-19 as they work to answer a multitude of questions about the coronavirus. ... Read More