DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) The long-term objective of this project is to identify lead compounds for the development of male contraceptive drugs. The project takes advantage of: 1) the observation that blocking meiotic recombination in spermatogenesis leads to… More

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are some of the most important contributors to pain, suffering and poverty in the developing world. For parasitic diseases in general, vaccines are nonexistent and none are likely to have a… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to apply a novel, well developed cost effective means of drug target and drug discovery to parasitic disease, focusing on Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania, the causative agents of Chagas disease and Leishmanaisis respectively. This… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sepsis and the related systemic inflammatory response are the leading causes of death in intensive care units. More than 200,000 people die each year in the US from sepsis and associated complications. The lung is the organ most often affected with pulmonary… More