Business & Entrepreneurship

WashU Olin Business supply chain expert Panos Kouvelis explains how the St. Louis region has emerged as a competitive hub for companies navigating global supply chain disruptions.

An earbud-like device from Aurenar, a WashU startup, is designed to improve stroke outcomes after a ruptured brain aneurysm. The technology is based on clinical trials led by WashU Medicine physician-scientists including Eric Leuthardt, MD.

At the WashU Office of Technology Management’s annual Celebration of Inventors, WashU Medicine researchers Graham Colditz and Shu (Joy) Jiang were honored for developing and commercializing a technology to predict breast cancer risk.

A new minor program at WashU McKelvey Engineering will equip students with the ability to connect technical decisions with societal outcomes.

Two WashU alumni prove their commitment to saving lives, to growing a business — and to one another.

Olin’s Sydney Scott researches why consumers act the way they do in the grocery aisle – and the doctor’s office.

WashU engineering researchers led by Sang-Hoon Bae received a grant from Samsung to further their work to improve electrostatic capacitors.

WashU was ranked ninth among U.S. universities in the inaugural Cure Innovation Index, an assessment of how effectively institutions translate research advances into market-ready innovations. The index cited WashU’s biomedical research capabilities and support for commercialization and innovation, among other strengths.

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.