Entrepreneurship

Supports student-run ventures that are just getting started through an incubator that connects students to a small amount of start-up capital as well as to Bear Studios Student Team Members who have diverse skill-sets in programming and coding, finance, strategy, app development, marketing, and graphic design, among other skills, to help develop their ventures.

BEC is a graduate student-led multidisciplinary group open to all WashU affiliates, begun in 2004 and now comprising upward of 400 members. Its mission is to educate students, faculty, and staff regarding biotechnology-based entrepreneurial opportunities and skills.

Sling Health STL the founding chapter of a national student-run non-profit organization founded in 2013 by medical students at Washington University in St. Louis in order to confront the surplus of unsolved clinical problems they encountered within the hospitals. Our organization brings together a diverse group of students, clinicians, and local entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize medtech solutions that ultimately improve patient health care.