2023 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Award – Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS
We are pleased to announce that Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS is one of the recipients of the 2023 Sexual Medicine Research Fund award.
Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS, assistant professor of medicine/infectious diseases, and Deborah Anderson, professor of medicine/infectious diseases, are developing products using topical monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for contraception and STI prevention. Vaginal films containing anti-HIV and anti-HSV mAbs, and a contraceptive mAb, HCA, showed promise in recent Phase I clinical trials evaluating feasibility, safety and ex vivoefficacy. They propose to now evaluate the feasibility of delivering anti-HIV mAbs in sexual lubricants for on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention.