St. Louis Region

Missouri-based Health Innovation Giant Announces Partnership to Expand Access for COVID-19 Testing

Missouri-based Centene Corp., a health innovation company, is teaming up with clinical laboratory Quest Diagnostics to expand COVID-19 testing access in areas of need throughout the U.S. The company plans to ... Read More

Missouri Getting Back to Business Under First Phase of “Show Me Strong Recovery” Plan

On April 27, Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced the first phase of the “Show Me Strong Recovery” Plan outlining how Missouri will reopen economic and social activity following the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read More

Amazon Put 1,000+ Missourians Back to Work

Amazon recently announced that it is putting more than 1,000 Missourians back to work. The new Missouri employees will fill a variety of positions at Amazon’s St. Peters fulfillment center, such ... Read More

Missouri Utilizes Data in Fight Against COVID-19

While most Americans spent December 2019 blissfully unaware of the coronavirus and the approaching pandemic, Enbal Shacham, Director of the Ph.D. in Public Health Studies Program at Saint Louis University’s College for ... Read More

Washington University Announces Chloroquine Trial in Fight Against COVID-19

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, announced that it is launching a clinical trial to investigate the drug chloroquine to treat COVID-19. The trial is one of 20 ... Read More

Missourian Pledges $1 Billion to Fight COVID-19

Missouri native and CEO of Twitter Inc., Jack Dorsey, has pledged $1 billion of his stake in Square Inc., the payments processor that he co-founded and runs, to help fund relief ... Read More

Missourians Step Up to Produce Much Needed PPE In Fight Against COVID-19

Across Missouri, manufacturers, designers, universities, and more are stepping up in a big way to help produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical personnel, first responders and the general public to ... Read More

Missouri Company Helping Families with Need to Knead During COVID-19 Shutdown

St. Louis, Missouri-based AB Mauri North America, a British-owned baking technology provider, is working to keep bread on families’ tables across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company’s three yeast ... Read More

Brookings: Missouri’s Cortex Is Key Innovation Community in Fight Against COVID-19

The Cortex Innovation Community, in St. Louis, Missouri, was recently named a key innovation district that is leading the fight against COVID-19. The Brookings Institute singled out seven globally, and two ... Read More

St. Louis Fashion Designers Put Skills to Use to Fight COVID-19

Michael Drummond, a designer at the Saint Louis Fashion Fund, is leading a group of 10 out-of-work designers to sew 14,000 face masks over the next 45 days to help fight ... Read More