Washington University, est. 2013St. Louis, Missouri

Cohort 13 / 2026 to 2027

Teams currently in residence.

Each team is paired with a practicing clinician sponsor and supported through nine months of design reviews, prototyping, and pitch coaching.

  1. 01
    Brainject

    Brainject

    Patients may maintain normal daily function while their brains become less able to compensate for disease. This makes it difficult to recognize emerging vulnerability before dysfunction becomes apparent.

    Led by Danting Zeng
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  2. 02
    ColoStim

    ColoStim

    Slow-transit constipation, a subtype of chronic constipation caused by colonic dysmotility, affects an estimated 2-4% of people worldwide (about 6.7-13.4 million in the US), and common treatments such as laxatives do not address the underlying dysmotility. Clinicians treating colonic dysmotility using dry needling electrical stimulation (DNES) need a method to standardize needle placement and objectively evaluate colonic muscle activity to improve treatment outcomes for individuals struggling with colonic dysmotility.

    Led by Gabriela Hakeman
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  3. 03
    MedIQ Health

    MedIQ Health

    Asthma affects nearly 25 million Americans, yet management remains largely reactive. Clinicians and patients lack objective, longitudinal insight into lung function, medication adherence, and airway inflammation between visits.

    Led by Mira Srinivasa
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  4. 04

    MHABI

    Two individuals seeking mental health services may have very different circumstances, yet traditional scheduling processes may place them on the same waitlist.

    Led by Khutaija Noor
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  5. 05

    NF1 Pediatric Project

    Children and teens with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) can struggle with everyday independence; learning difficulties affect approximately 50-60% of people with NF1. Challenges with planning, movement, and sensory processing can make daily routines and participation at home, school, and play harder.

    Led by Gaurish Agrawal and Jacqueline Chuang
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  6. 06
    Relay

    Relay

    About 500,000 Americans receive a dental implant each year, and every one of them spends at least four months in a gap between two offices that cannot see each other's work. When the handoff fails, the patient has had surgery and still has no tooth.

    Led by Ethan Wu
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  7. 07
    SelectIVF

    SelectIVF

    Embryologists primarily rely on morphological grading to select embryos for IVF, yet embryos that appear nearly identical under a microscope can have significantly different developmental and implantation potential. Spent embryo culture medium contains promising molecular biomarkers for embryo viability, but their extremely low concentrations and background interference have prevented the development of standardized detection methods for routine clinical embryo selection.

    Led by Arya Waza
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  8. 08
    SignalShift

    SignalShift

    Signal is buried in noise: about 80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication at handoffs, and 85-99% of alarm signals need no clinical intervention. Every alert buzzes the same, so nurses carry the cognitive load of deciding which one needs a human now.

    Led by Manish Verma
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  9. 09

    Weave Health

    1 in 3 U.S. adults struggle to understand health information, and patients forget 40-80% of what their doctor tells them almost immediately. This leads to poor adherence to care plans, loss to follow-up, and worse health outcomes, while care teams lack real-time feedback on patients' care experience outside the clinic.

    Led by Shreya Ramanathan
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  10. 10
    ParamAI

    ParamAI

    Missing information about drug behavior makes it much harder for drug developers to choose effective, tolerable doses, increasing development costs and delaying promising medicines for patients.

    Led by Anish (Max) Bagga
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The record, 2013 to today
  • GeneoscopyNon-invasive colorectal cancer screeningSeries C · $105M
  • CareSignalDeviceless remote patient monitoringAcquired by Lightbeam
  • SentiARHolographic AR for cardiac electrophysiologySeries B · $8.5M
  • WellsheetAI clinical workflow and EHR overlaySeries A
  • UroStat HealthcareInsurance-covered home delivery of medical suppliesOperating
  • nCase TechnologiesPortable carry cases for naloxone nasal sprayArch Grant
  • Absco TherapeuticsThermogelling drug delivery for cancers and precancersSeries A · $5M
  • Applied Particle TechnologyReal-time air-quality monitoring for heavy industrySeed · NASA-backed
  • CaralystMental-health provider matching for healthcare workersPre-seed

Figures reflect publicly announced rounds and outcomes. 180+ teams have come through the program; these are the ones still running.