In the News: WashU alum one of 2018’s 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs
The hits keep coming for WashU alum Morgan DeBaun.
WashU Women Innovate
WashU women innovate, inspire, create and change the world with their passion and ideas. They invent new products, launch companies and bring their vision to life, all the while strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurship community at Washington University and beyond. We are proud to celebrate them here.
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 Discoverer: Lan Yang
Meet Lan Yang. At 14, she was so committed to becoming a scientist, she went on a hunger strike. The photonics researcher now holds the most patents and disclosures of any female faculty member at WashU.
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 High Risers
These WashU alumnae have reached dizzying heights of success in fashion, tech, media and design. With high-profile clients, an unending stream of accolades and jawdropping funding rounds, they’ve risen fast and far — most before the age of thirty.
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 World Changers: These WashU women are making a better world
Entrepreneurship can be much more than phone apps and ridesharing companies. It can change the world.
The Redefiner: Atima Lui
In this Q&A, WashU alum Atima Lui discusses her philosophy, principles and how women can continue to make strides in the entrepreneurship and innovation fields.
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.