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Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, is pursuing a better understanding of the molecular underpinnings of disease, which stands to improve human health.

[T. Griswold] Comstock advanced medicine to help his own community — the same St. Louis community I love. And WashU is a huge part of that. My goal is to stay in this community and state that I really care about and advance medicine and health while delivering really good bedside patient care.

It makes me feel like I can do anything. I can choose any specialty, do community-based work or go into academic medicine because I don’t have to worry about debt. It’s very freeing.

Lilianna “Lila” Solnica-Krezel, PhD, came to Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine in 2010 as head of the Department of Developmental Biology—the first woman to hold a department head position in the School of Medicine.

I won’t be coming out of school with crushing debt. My scholarship support has really alleviated a lot of burdens and stress, and allowed me to focus on school and my family instead of finances.

The expectations, length of training and then going under the hood for $260,000 — that’s a lot of pressure. Having one of those huge burdens taken away has allowed me to enjoy my time here.

My scholarship has allowed me to recognize how I might build a career that improves the health of patients and communities.

I want to play a bigger role in improving health-care access for people who really need it. To do that, I needed other skills to help me understand the business side of health care. Scholarships have allowed me to get those skills.