Our Mission

Sling Health St. Louis is the founding chapter of Sling Health, a national student-run non-profit organization founded in 2013 by medical students at Washington University in St. Louis to confront the surplus of unsolved clinical problems encountered within hospitals.

Our incubator brings together a diverse group of students, clinicians, and entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize solutions improving healthcare.

Main Objectives

To make medical entrepreneurship attainable for students and physicians

To integrate students from the schools of medicine, business, engineering, and arts & sciences to tackle unmet clinical needs by developing and commercializing solutions to real-world healthcare problems

To provide resources, training and mentorship to participating teams of students and residents through an experiential platform