Skandalaris Center

Five Washington University in St. Louis research teams have been selected to receive funding as part of the Summer 2017 cycle of the Leadership in Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program, better known as the LEAP Inventor Challenge (LEAP). The challenge’s facilitators anticipate...

Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, the Wright brothers… This clearly doesn’t scratch the surface of all the great minds throughout history, but what unites them all—outside of their genius—is their naysayers. People laughed at them. They doubted their ability. Yet look...

Five Washington University teams will be awarded up to $175,000 in the latest LEAP Inventor Challenge (LEAP) cycle. This concludes the academic year with a total $650,000 allocated to fifteen LEAP awardees. [See Fall 2016 and Summer 2016 awardees. Note:...

Each LEAP Inventor Challenge cycle, we are blown away by the insight that our competition judges bring to the presenting teams. For the Spring 2017 cycle, twenty individuals hailing from the pharmaceutical industry to venture capital volunteered their time and expertise to...

Congrats to the Skandalaris Center Cup award winners! 1st Place – $5,000: Viosera, a MRSA antibiotic 2nd Place – $2,500: Cyber Powered Home, a residential energy monitoring and management system Audience Choice Award – $500: Viosera All teams did a...