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CHICAGO, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Winning Pitch Challenge - RETINA awarded Hema Ramkumar, MD top honors at its virtual event on February 6, 2021.
After an initial round of submissions, The Winning Pitch Challenge - RETINA featured three finalists who were invited to present their innovative ophthalmic ideas to a panel of industry leaders. Ramkumar s win included a $25,000 prize and access to expert guidance to move her innovation forward. She is the founder of Oculogenex, a company that uses gene therapy to improve vision.
Alan Franklin, MD, PhD, of ForwardVue Pharma, and Aditya Sudhalkar, MD, who is pioneering a subtenons steroid implant were the two other finalists.Franklin and Sudhalkar tied for second place and split the remaining $20,000 cash prize.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Winning Pitch Challenge - Retina will feature three finalists with innovative ophthalmic ideas presenting to a panel of industry leaders on Saturday, February 6 during a virtual event slated for 10-11 a.m. CST. The finalists will receive a total of $45,000 and expert guidance to move their innovations forward with the Grand Prize Winner taking home $25,000. This year s finalists are:
Alan Franklin, MD, PhD, ForwardVue Pharma
Hema Ramkumar, MD, Oculogenex
Aditya Sudhalkar, MD, Subtenons Steroid Implant
The Winning Pitch Challenge helps accelerate the pace of innovation in ophthalmology by providing ophthalmologists with the tools and assistance they need to transform their novel ideas for improvements in patient care into functioning prototypes ready for early-stage studies.