Health

A New Idea For Old Inhalers

Supporting and accelerating bold new ideas...

Supporting and accelerating bold new ideas...

Each year, more than $200 million is spent on wasted inhalers. Once an inhaler has been used, it simply goes into the trash.

So for six months, a team of students from the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the Kenan-Flagler Business School developed a project aimed to reduce the cost of wasted inhalers by sterilizing them with UV-C light, allowing an inhaler to be used safely by another patient.

The E(I) Lab Program — an experiential program which teams up graduate students from different disciplines to tackle unmet medical needs to gain first-hand training in prototype development and product design — provided the financial support and access to various experts with the goal of removing barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation for the participants.

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This is story number 87 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.

The E(I) Lab Program is made possible by funding from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation.

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