Business & Entrepreneurship

WashU Medicine researchers Randall J. Bateman, MD, and David M. Holtzman, MD, were honored for their work developing diagnostic blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease with the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s 2026 American Innovator Award.

Researchers at WashU McKelvey Engineering are addressing the challenges of scaling up carbon dioxide electrolysis for industrial use.

In total, WashU startups received nearly $125,000 in funding during an event at the Skandalaris Center’s annual spring awards ceremony.

Applications are open for the AI Research Commons Midwest Fellows Program, which connects leaders of early AI startups to resources. It’s open to faculty, students and researchers from WashU and other institutions that recently launched Third Coast Foundry. The deadline is Friday, May 1.

At WashU, Sri Gopalsamy Ramaswamy combines public health and business to examine why care falls short — and how to design solutions that reach patients.

The Skandalaris Center has established the WashU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Nominations for the inaugural class are open until May 4.

The WashU Venture Network has awarded four St. Louis startups its annual Follow-on Investments.

WashU will launch a doctoral program in neuroengineering in fall 2027, one of only a few in the United States.

The National Academy of Inventors has once again named WashU to its Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents List.