VCU Startup Wins Grant For Infection-Fighting Surgical Gel
Summary
A Virginia Commonwealth University startup with an innovation that could enhance brain and spinal surgeries received a $800,000 state grant to support the development of its infection-fighting gel. Catalyst CEO Mike Grisham said the nonprofits goal is to provide funding that helps industry partners and academic investigators raise follow-on investments.Pascal was co-founded by Barbara Boyan, Ph.D., the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. This also tells investors their matching funds are supporting research and commercialization approaches that are sound.Barbara is a serial entrepreneur and one of VCUs most inventive minds, and has spent her career trying to improve quality of life or prevent pain in patients, especially those facing orthopedic injury or surgeries.Pascal has the right team, technology and a plan in place to bring their ClickGel and more neuromusculoskeletal products to market as quickly as possible. When our faculty develop innovations in the lab that can directly improve patient outcomes and bring them to market through startups like Pascal, theyre fulfilling our Engineering for Humanity mission. Monique van Hoek, who runs GMUs Center for Infectious Disease Research, which specializes in developing and testing novel treatment approaches for difficult.