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The 4444 Forest Park Building, a six-story facility opened in 1976, houses key departmental resources. The Department of Pediatrics occupies 10,168 square feet on the fifth floor, which includes all essential core support spaces: a cold room, tissue culture room, dark room, microscopy room and an autoclave. These specialized areas enable advanced research and laboratory work in a centralized location.

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Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) is the largest hospital in Missouri and the biggest private employer in the St. Louis region. As an affiliated teaching hospital of WashU Medicine, BJH boasts a medical staff of 1,700 members. Like St. Louis Children’s Hospital, BJH has earned the prestigious Magnet Award for Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), recognizing excellence in nursing care.

The Bernard Becker Medical Library provides essential information resources and technology to support the educational, research, and patient-care missions of the School of Medicine. It serves the medical school, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

The library’s holdings include physical and digital books, journals, and databases—many accessible remotely. A team of 50 staff members, including librarians and IT specialists, ensures comprehensive support. Becker librarians also maintain several informational blogs, while the rare books archive houses one of the nation’s finest collections of historical medical materials.

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The Steven & Susan Lipstein BJC Institute of Health (BJCIH) at WashU Medicine is an 11-story, 680,000-square-foot research facility that opened in 2009 as the university’s largest building. Supported by a $30 million naming gift from BJC HealthCare, the $235 million institute houses advanced laboratories and research support spaces and earned LEED Gold certification for its sustainable design. In 2021, Washington University announced a six-floor expansion adding 160,000 square feet of state-of-the-art lab space, including a high-containment BSL-3 laboratory for research on dangerous pathogens. The building faces the Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza, a serene space designed by artist Maya Lin to honor Ellen Clark.

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The Center for Advanced Medicine serves as the outpatient clinic for many adult specialties at WashU Medicine. Patients receive multidisciplinary consultations, diagnostic services, medical treatments, same-day surgeries and other support — all in one convenient location.

This building is home to the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, an internationally recognized leader in cancer treatment, research, prevention, education and community outreach. Siteman is the only cancer center in Missouri — and within a 240-mile radius of St. Louis — to hold the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute and membership in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

The center brings together the expertise of more than 350 WashU Medicine physicians and research scientists, caring for over 7,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients and 32,000 follow-up patients each year. These specialists collectively manage nearly $150 million in cancer research and training grants, driving innovation and advancing cancer care.

Facilitating top-quality clinical research, this center supports WashU Medicine investigators with comprehensive administrative and clinical research services from initial proposal development through study close-out. Our mission is to streamline processes, ensure regulatory compliance and provide expert guidance, enabling researchers to focus on advancing discoveries that improve patient care.

Accelerating the pace of discovery, the Children’s Discovery Institute (CDI) represents a transformative partnership between St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine, dedicated to redefining pediatric research and delivering innovative therapies for previously untreatable conditions. Through expanded donor-funded initiatives in gene and cell-based therapies, infectious disease and pediatric immunology, CDI fosters collaboration across disciplines to drive faster scientific breakthroughs and improve outcomes for children everywhere.

Providing essential guidance for safe and compliant operations, this collection of resources helps faculty, staff and trainees adhere to institutional health, safety and security standards. From laboratory protocols to emergency procedures, these materials are designed to support a culture of responsibility and ensure that all activities meet regulatory and institutional requirements.

Empowering research through shared expertise and advanced technology, WashU’s core facilities provide investigators with access to specialized equipment, services and technical support. These centralized resources enable high-quality, cost-effective research across disciplines, fostering collaboration and innovation from basic science to clinical applications.

The Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) is a premier meeting and event facility located on the Washington University Medical Campus. Conveniently accessible by car, it’s just a 20-minute drive from Lambert St. Louis International Airport.

EPNEC offers 21,000 square feet of fully equipped, ADA-accessible conference space. Designed for comfort, the center features ergonomically appointed furnishings to keep attendees comfortable — whether for a one-hour meeting or an all-day event.

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