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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“The journey we’ve taken over the decades amounts to whole careers. It was a gift to have that sense of purpose. It was our mission to help people, and I think our efforts paid off.”

Dr. Barbara Monsees, MD ’75

First section chief, Breast Imaging

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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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Advancing health, improving lives

Health is foundational to the human experience. At WashU, we’re pioneering solutions that improve and extend lives — through groundbreaking clinical trials, our patient-centered approach to cancer care, research around the intersection of business and healthcare, to name a few. With you, we are advancing research and clinical care to foster healthier lives for all.