PittPharmacy Professor Lisa C. Rohan, PhD, PittMedicine Assistant Professor Katherine Bunge, MD, MPH and PittPharmacy Post Doctor Associate Sravankumar Patel, PhD received a grant through the University of Pittsburgh Coulter Translational Research Partners II Program. The team will use the funds for development of  HerShield Product, a quick dissolving vaginal film for on-demand drug delivery platform for protection against sexually transmitted infections. Within the grant their HerShield Product, which is designed for prevention of Herpes Simplex Virus, will be advanced.

The Coulter Program, housed within Pitt’s Department of Bioengineering, is a partnership between the Swanson School of Engineering, the Schools of the Health Sciences and the Innovation Institute. The Program aims to identify, select, and develop promising late-stage biomedical projects that address significant unmet clinical needs and have the potential for positive clinical and economic impacts.

The 2017 Coulter funding cycle was unique from previous years, in that applications were accepted in collaboration with the Center for Commercial Applications of Healthcare Data and SciVelo, the Department of Dermatology, the Department of Plastic Surgery, the Magee-Womens Research Institute, the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and the Vascular Medicine Institute.

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