Launched in 2022, the mission of the Center for Women’s Health Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is to unite investigators from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine to collaborate in research, education and training at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. The center also supports technology transfer, entrepreneurship and outreach both within and outside of the university community.
Building on WashU’s strengths within the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, the CWHE advances novel engineering approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases relevant to women’s health. The CWHE will promote research on women-specific conditions and conditions that disproportionately affect women, including heart disease, cancer, and adverse maternal health outcomes, with the goal of increasing health for women across the lifespan. The Center will also train the next generation of researchers, entrepreneurs and policy leaders needed to change the trajectory of women’s healthcare and will save lives that today are needlessly lost to preventable causes.
Leadership
Quing Zhu, interim director
Steering Committee
Phil Bayly
Lori Setton
Sara Roccabianca
Chao Zhou
Education Committee
Christine O’Brien
Katie Schreiber
Outreach Committee
Matthew Bersi
Katie Schreiber
Research Committee
Matthew Bersi
Alexandra Rutz
Entrepreneurship Committee
Coming Soon