Posts made in April, 2016

IDEA Labs’ Demo Day showcases healthcare innovation from leading medical institutions

Posted by on Apr 19, 2016 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

By Renee Moore. When patients have healthcare problems, they talk with a physician. When physicians have healthcare problems, they talk with IDEA Labs. IDEA Labs (the acronym stands for Innovation, Design, and Engineering in Action) is a medical-based incubator program founded at Washington University in 2013 by students who wanted to provide an answer for unmet needs in healthcare delivery and clinical medicine. IDEA Labs brings medical, engineering and business students together with clinicians to envision new solutions to healthcare’s most pressing problems. Stephen Linderman, co-founder...

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Entrepreneur focuses on developing a pipeline of successful women

Posted by on Apr 5, 2016 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

By Renee Moore. Stacy Taubman recognizes that successful women start as young girls who dream big.  The educator-turned-entrepreneur is the founder of both Girls Dreaming Big and Rise Collaborative Workspace, where women work, girls grow and dreams rise into reality. Click here to hear Stacy Taubman on KMOX Radio St. Louis As a high school teacher and coach, Taubman began brainstorming ways to build a program that could combat the myriad issues that high school girls face, including lackluster test scores and poor time management, unhealthy body image and, ultimately, self-destructive...

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