Appeared on June 16, 2007
On June 7, Sandra Urdaneta Hartmann, along with colleagues Dr. Mary K. Howett and Dr. John W. Kreider, won Drexel University's 2007 Business Plan Competition for their ongoing work in developing a common ingredient in personal-care products — sodium dodecyl sulfate — into a new spermicide and microbicide for women to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and HPV.