Healthier Lives

With you, WashU boldly advances healthier lives through unrivaled patient care and academic distinction in breakthrough research and innovative, interdisciplinary education, where all students are taught to advocate for a healthier world.

WashU Medicine is one of the world’s largest biomedical research centers, defined by a truly unique culture of collaboration. Our physicians and scientists possess uncommonly deep expertise across disparate fields, including neuroscience, cancer, genomics, and more. They unite around complex medical challenges to supercharge discovery. Ranked No. 2 in the nation for research funding from the National Institutes of Health, WashU is among a handful of institutions worldwide poised to lead game-changing breakthroughs in health care. Think Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, personalized cancer care, and the science of aging.

Private philanthropy is vital to this process of innovation. With you, we will deepen and expand our pathbreaking research, premium patient care, and cutting-edge training of the world’s best clinicians and scholars. Through investments big and small, we will build a healthier world one person at a time — translating academic discovery into solutions that change lives. With you, this is what WashU can do.

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“Mental health relates to how our brains are wired, so by understanding more about that circuitry and how it works in health and disease, we can fix the mental health challenges that we all face. I know that we will be successful in doing that.”

Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, FCASA

Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor of Anesthesiology
Head, Department of Anesthesiology,
WashU Medicine

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“As a fellow, I am writing DARPA solicitations … to push the field of neuroscience, both its basic neuroscience and technology development, far into the future.”

Alissa Ling, AB ’18

DARPA Innovation Fellow

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“Scientists here are eager to work together, because we know that’s the best way to make big leaps in discovery. Fort Labs allows us to do that.”

Eric Lenze, BA ’90, MD ’94 

Wallace and Lucille K. Renard Professor of Psychiatry  
Head, Department of Psychiatry,
WashU Medicine

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Launching the next era of neuroscience

WashU advances healthier lives through our unrivaled culture of collaboration and innovation, both at our top-ranked medical school and across all eight Danforth Campus schools. At our new Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building, made possible through Fort’s immense generosity, we are deepening team science to promote medical breakthroughs and save lives.