Full Transcend Awardees

2023-2024 Cohort

  • Geospatial Research Initiative Public Health and Environmental Research; Leadership: Nathan Jacobs, Alexander Bradley, Michael Frachetti, Jennifer Moore
  • Improving Mental Health, Poverty, and AIDS Research and Training in Global Contexts (IMPACT GLOBAL) Center Public Health, Global Health; Leadership: Fred Ssewamala, Mary McKay, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg
  • Air Quality & Health Public Health and Environmental Research; Leadership: Randall Martin, Ziyad Al-Aly, Jay Turner, Victor Davila-Roman, Yin Cao
  • Center for Education Research, Practice, and Policy Partnerships (CERP³), Digital Transformation, Public Health, & Research Impacting the St. Louis Community; Leadership: Jason Jabbari, Kelly Harris, Allison King, Andrew Butler, Victoria May, Rachel Ruggirello, Michael Wysession, Young-Shin Jun, Casey Reimer
  • Center for Holistic Interdisciplinary Research in Psychedelics (CHIRP), Public Health & St. Louis Community; Leadership: Ginger Nicol, Leopoldo Cabassa

Partial Transcend Awardees

Teams that show great promise have been awarded partial Transcend Initiative Grants to further develop their initiatives. Teams can reapply to be a full Transcend Initiative at a later date.

2023-2024 Partial Transcend Awardees

  • University-Wide Research on Vector-Borne, Public Health, Research Impacting the St. Louis Community; Leadership: Solny Adalsteinsson, Jacco Boon, Michael Landis, Susan Flowers
  • Children and Youth Collaborative Network, Public Health; Leadership: Melissa Jonson-Reid, Brown School; Anneliese Schaefer, WUSM; Kimberly Johnson, Brown School
  • EnviroTex: Advancing Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions in Textiles Design to Adoption, Environmental Research; Leadership: Marcus Foston, Arpita Bose, Dino Christenson, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu
  • WashU Synthetic Biology Initiative of Plants and Microbes, Environmental Research; Leadership: Joseph Jez, Fuzhong Zhang, Himadri Pakrasi