“From Neutrons to Healing: How Mizzou is leading the way in cancer theranostics”
Speaker: Matt Sanford, PhD
Executive Director, University of Missouri Research Reactor
Date: June 12, 2025, noon-1 p.m.
Location: Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building, Atkins Family Seminar Room
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About the Speaker
Matt Sanford oversees all aspects of MURR, including research and education programs, reactor operations, and products and services. Sanford provides leadership to a diverse workforce in a highly techni
cal and regulated environment, promotes the principles of maintaining a healthy nuclear safety culture and drives continuous improvement of safety, compliance, reliability and quality in all of MURR’s systems.
Sanford is a University of Missouri graduate and began work at MURR in 1989. He served as Associate Director of MURR from 2010-2023. He was appointed as the MURR Interim Executive Director from 2017-2018 and again in November 2022 before being named MURR Executive Director in July 2023.
Sanford is a graduate of the President’s Academic Leadership Institute, served as a delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc.
About the Discovery Series
The NextGen Precision Health Discovery Series provides learning opportunities for UM System faculty and staff across disciplines, the statewide community and our other partners to learn about the scope of precision health research and identify potential collaborative opportunities. The series consists of monthly lectures geared toward a broad multidisciplinary audience so all can participate and appreciate the spectrum of precision health efforts.
For questions about this event or any others in the Discovery Series, please reach out to Mackenzie Lynch.