Trainees work together on entrepreneurial idea for Gates Foundation

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:00:00 -0500

This semester, while participating in the course SCEN-6000-01: “Entrepreneurship in Bioscience: A New Way of Inventing,” Derek Dashti and Nicholas Pashos worked in a team on an entrepreneurial idea, Big Easy Contraception. This project was inspired by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to push for the invention of a more pleasurable condom. The team has entered their business plan in Tulane's New Day Social Challenge, which will award $20,000 seed funding for innovative, sustainable solutions to social challenges in the New Orleans area (http://tulane.edu/socialentrepreneurship/newday.cfm). They have also submitted their business plan to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Competition (http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/Pages/NextGenerationCondomRound11.aspx), through which they will be eligible to earn $100,000.