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Gautam Mahajan

Thanks Jackson! Great question… In this current configuration, the focus was to use commercially available cells. We screened a few vendors and used the cells expressing appropriate vaginal epithelial cell makers. In this study we used 2 different donors from Caucasian and Hispanic ethnicity. Both donors behaved similarly on the chip with some differences in forming strong barrier. Current efforts are towards incorporating additional donors..