A partnership between St. Louis Children’s Hospital, its Foundation and WashU Medicine, the Children’s Discovery Institute (CDI) was born from a shared vision to change the way pediatric research is conducted and offer innovative therapies for patients who were previously considered untreatable.
With your support, a team of renowned clinical investigators will expand the scope of donor-funded research to encompass many more areas of child health, including gene and cell-based therapies, infectious disease, and pediatric immunology. These changes in focus and allocation of funds will spur faster scientific development and greater collaboration across disciplines–creating a stronger, more expansive CDI.
For every $1 the CDI invests in new research and pediatric treatments, clinical investigators attract $6 in additional funding to advance their discoveries.
One of only a few centers in the U.S. dedicated to pediatric research, the CDI model is unique in its cross-disciplinary approach to rigorous science intertwined with world-class care.
This program will not only provide our first-ever medical home for rare disease patients, it will also bring life-changing individualized medicine to reality.
Together with WUSM, we are creating a better model for behavioral health care—one that transforms the way we provide mental health support for children and families.
With your help, Washington University physician-scientists are shaping the future of genomic medicine right here in St. Louis.
With your support, we will give families the most effective tools possible to diagnose, treat, and prevent infectious diseases in children.
St. Louis Children’s is home to Missouri’s largest and most experienced pediatric sickle cell program – but it’s our compassionate, whole-child care approach that sets us apart.
Your partnership enables a world-class team of multidisciplinary clinicians to pioneer targeted therapies for primary immunodeficiencies.
This center will advance groundbreaking research on the developing brain, leading to improved health outcomes and potentially life-changing interventions.
Lead by expert physician-scientists, this center will advance better, more personalized treatments and interventions for asthma and other respiratory issues in children.
Transforming the Future of Child Health
St. Louis Children’s Hospital is the only place where WashU Medicine physician-scientists are empowered to do what they do best: bring academic research into real-life trials with game-changing results.
Meet Weston
Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital is the only place in the world that could offer Weston a groundbreaking trial that used his own cells to put his cancer into remissions.