The University of Iowa MR Research Facility was established in August of 2004 and now supports research dedicated 3T and 7T whole body scanners and a 7T small animal scanner. The MRRF facility has received two NIH High End Instrumentation grants over the past ten years to help support the acquisition of these instruments. In 2016, the facility moved into the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (IIBI) located within the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building (PBDB). The MRRF is run as a Core University facility.

The MR Research Center aims to maintain state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. This requires an investment in both the hardware and software that compose our center's mainstay, and also an investment in recruiting and maintaining exceptional personnel. To that end, we have been actively pursuing development in the following areas to advance the research at our University.