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Welcome to the Wall 2024

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On November 7, 2024, the Office of Technology Management celebrated the annual Welcome to the Wall, an event recognizing and celebrating WashU IP startup companies. WashU startup founders, faculty, OTM staff and ecosystem friends gathered for an evening of community while recognizing 10 new FY24 WashU IP startup companies and the talented innovation teams behind them.

The FY24 WashU IP startup class includes:

Armor Medical
CapyBio
Central Health Intelligence
Gateway Quantum Electronics
Mobius Care
MySci
Pairidex
Panome Bio
SmArT Aerosol Technologies
Trusted Kidney

This FY24 startup class was the first time ever that 50% of WashU IP startups in a given year launched with dilutive funding.  

Matthew MacEwan, PhD, Founder/Chief Science Officer, Acera Surgical, Inc. delivers keynote address.

The evening included WashU startup founder Matthew MacEwan, PhD, sharing remarks about his own personal startup journey. MacEwan is Founder and Chief Science Officer of Acera Surgical, Inc., a bioscience company located in St. Louis developing synthetic electrospun matrices for regenerative medical applications.

In 2024, under an NSF-ART grant partnership with the University of Missouri – Columbia and in partnership with BioGenerator, OTM launched the inaugural Venture Fellows Program for Post-Docs. Pictured here: (L to r) Dave Smoller, BioGenerator; Venture fellows: Bryce Stottlemire, Michelle Connor, Piya Siripoksup, Jae Morris, and Karen Gheesling Mullis and Liz Peek with OTM.

The event also recognized the Venture Fellows program for Post-docs, sponsored by OTM and BioGenerator. The program is available to Washington University postdoctoral researchers and offers an intensive 6-month curriculum that provides experiential learning in venture capital investing and company creation, as participating Fellows work alongside entrepreneurs, investors, and faculty in the St. Louis ecosystem.


Congratulations to all the FY24 WashU IP Startups!

WashU IP startup MySci. Pictured here (l to r) OTM’s Liz Peek, PhD with the MySci team, Victoria May and Keith May.
WashU IP startup Pairidex. Pictured here (l to r) Allyson Mayer, PhD, OTM’s Karen Gheesling Mullis, PhD and Andrew Young, MD, PhD
WashU IP Startup CapyBio. Picture here (l to r) Guillermo Rivera-Gonzalez, PhD and OTM’s Karen Gheesling Mullis, PhD.
WashU IP startup Panome Bio: Pictured (l to r) Gary Patti, PhD and OTM’s Liz Peek, PhD.
WashU IP startup Gateway Quantum Electronics. Pictured here (l to r): Jordan Russell, PhD and OTM’s Karen Gheesling Mullis, PhD
WashU IP startup Central Health Intelligence. Pictured here: Nathan Moore, MD
WashU IP startup Trusted Kidney. Pictured here (l to r): Joshua Swamidass, MD, PhD, Joseph Gaut, MD, PhD and Victoria Swamidass.
WashU IP Startup Armor Medical. Pictured here (l to r): Kelsey Mayo, PhD, Christine O’Brien, PhD and Leo Shmuylovich, MD, PhD.

* Not pictured, Smart Aerosol Technologies and Mobius Care.

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