Provectus Biopharmaceuticals Announces Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement with University of Miami for Photodynamic Antimicrobial Treatment of Different Eye Infections with Rose Bengal Sodium
Provectus would contribute the license to the new entity and have an exclusive RBS supply arrangement with it.
- Provectus would contribute the license to the new entity and have an exclusive RBS supply arrangement with it.
- Rose bengal PDAT emerged under the leadership of Jean-Marie Parel, IngETS-G, Ph.D., FARVO, Director of the Ophthalmic Biophysics Center (“OBC”) at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (“BPEI”) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
- The OBC team and Dr. Parel have spent many years advancing their PDAT technology using rose bengal against different types of treatment-naïve and -resistant keratitis.
- Dr. Parel said, “Rose bengal PDAT is the result of a lot of hard work by cross-disciplinary contributors at the University of Miami.