Don’t miss: Mar 22 – Workshop: Pitfalls in Startup Incorporation & Equity
Part of Skandalaris Center and Sling Health STL’s workshop series.
Health
Medical School faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Two faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
The Trailblazer: Nancy Tye-Murray
Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD, is the first female faculty member at WashU to found a startup. Her company, clEAR, helps people with hearing loss to better recognize and understand speech through training that uses their loved ones’ voices.
The Researchers: Battling deadly TB
Christina Stallings, PhD, Shabaana Abdul Khader, PhD, and Jennifer Philips, MD, PhD, are on the front lines of the battle to stop the world’s deadliest bacteria. Between them, they hold eight patents related to TB research.
The Fighter: Audrey Odom John
Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD, is on a mission to fight the spread of infectious diseases like malaria through better, faster, more nimble diagnostic tools.
The Innovator: Jen Silva
An entrepreneur with heart: WashU physician Jen Silva, MD, has co-founded a startup that is developing technology to enable doctors to see real-time 3D holograms of the heart during cardiac procedures.
Sling Health Demo Day
Student teams from universities around the U.S. will present novel tech solutions for addressing unmet needs in healthcare delivery and clinical medicine.
Social Innovation Pitch Day
The Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab at Washington University in St. Louis, partnering with the Brown School and Skandalaris Center, aims to create a culture of impact-focused entrepreneurship in order to spark new ways of approaching complex social problems. The Lab connects WashU…
LEAP Challenge gets boost from SPARC
The new collaboration supports innovation in drug development and delivery.