Teaching and Discovering Innovations -- $100 million

Medical Research

By furthering medical research, BJC fosters learning, innovation, better health and better health care in our hospitals and our communities. Foundations at BJC hospitals provided grants totaling $9.2 million during 2007 to support research efforts ranging from preventing obesity in children with asthma to understanding the origins of feeding tube infections. BJC helped support the advancement of health through medical research with a donation to Washington University School of Medicine in support of BioMed 21.

A gift from BJC HealthCare will help construct a new 11-story research building on the Washington University Medical Center campus that will serve as home for BioMed 21, the University’s innovative initiative designed to accelerate scientific discovery and bring medical breakthroughs to the patient bedside faster. BJC is supporting this effort by contributing a $30 million gift over five years toward construction of the facility, to be called the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.

The BJC Institute of Health at Washington University will be home to research that brings together gifted physicians, scientists and researchers with a common goal -- to find new and better ways to improve human health, including new treatments and potential cures for the diseases most prevalent in our society. As a hub for BioMed 21, the building will provide space for five newly created Interdisciplinary Research Centers focused on cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases and membrane excitability diseases.

Construction is under way on the $235 million building, located on the southwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Children’s Place.

Back to Teaching and Discovering Innovations