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PROJECT SUMMARY Failure of new drugs at late stages of development is an extremely costly event commonly associated with the detection of unexpected arrhythmogenic properties in novel drugs Undetected arrhythmia inducing effects are also a common reason for drug withdrawal from the market As a result the FDA now mandates that all new drugs be tested for potential arrhythmogenic properties which ha ...

Nearly a quarter of a million new cases of ovarian cancer are identified every year worldwide and the majority of these woman will die from their disease. When detected early, surgical cure rates exceed 90%, but currently most cases are detected at an advanced stage when the cancer has already disseminated. As such, our most pressing problem in ovarian cancer is a lack of tools to identify early s ...

Motor development plays a pivotal role in an infant’s overall development and has a cascading effect on social, cognitive, memory, and language ability. These functions can be compromised when motor development is disrupted; motor disruption is associated with generalized developmental delays. Early screening and identification of delays can allow early interventions with the goal of not just im ...

ABSTRACTThere is an urgentunmet need for novel therapeutic approaches that are efficacious against lung cancerRanking first among cancer deaths in the U Sthis disease hasyear relative survival rates of andltMost lung cancers are non small cellNSCLCof casesCurative surgery is not an option for theof NSCLC patients who present with advanced stage III cancerFor these patients chemo radiation therapy ...

Project Summary Mucopolysaccharidosis type IMPS Iis an autosomal recessive storage disease caused by the absence ofL iduronidaseIDUAresulting in systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycanGAGstorage materialshepatosplenomegalyskeletal dysplasiascardiopulmonary obstructionprogressive neurologic impairment and death by ageMPS I is currently treated by enzyme replacement therapy and by allogeneic hema ...

The purpose of this proposal is to develop a validated physiological model of the human physiologyespecially the cardio renal axisfor submission to the FDA Medical Device Development Tool pilot programThe model will be used to aid in the development and regulation of medical devices designed to treat hypertensionExamples include devices for renal nerve ablationelectrical stimulation of the carotid ...

Abstract There is a growing consensus that protection against HIV infection will require BOTH antiviral antibody responses as well as polyfunctional CDand CDT cells with potent lytic activityTo stimulate the breadthpotencyand rate of response requiredProfectus Biosciences intends to utilize its platform technologies based on DNA vaccines combined with genetic adjuvantsAs a step in that directiona ...

Project Summary. The Indicator Cell Assay Platform (iCAP) is an inexpensive blood-based assay that can be used for early detection of disease, disease stage stratification, prognosis and response to therapy for a variety of diseases. The iCAP uses cultured, standardized cells as biosensors, capitalizing on the ability of cells to respond to disease signals present in serum with exquisite sensitivi ...

This SBIR Application is responsive to NHLBI Small Business Topics of Special Interest (therapeutics) that are of high programmatic interest (HLS-17-04). Hemorrhage or bleeding is a serious or fatal complication of surgery. Antifibrinolytic agents that inhibit plasmin-mediated fibrinolysis can significantly reduce blood loss, emergency reoperation, morbidity and death in patients with severe hemor ...

The chemokine receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 (CXCR1/2) are validated as having essential roles in the growth, survival, motility, invasion and angiogenesis of human melanoma, which secretes abundant amounts of the corresponding chemokine ligands, including CXCL8. Additionally, abnormal cancer-induced immunosuppressive myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in the circulation and tumor correlate with ...