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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The global contraceptives market was valued at $ billion in and is expected to grow at a CAGR of from to to reach an estimated value of $ billion in An important high impact driver of this market is the prevalence of unintended pregnancies In the US there are million unintended pregnancies annually through inconsistent or ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantBreast cancer is the most common malignancy in women living in the USwith more thannew cases diagnosed each yearand an estimatedwomen dying from the disease inGreater thanof these diagnoses are classified as triple negative breast cancerTNBCwhich is considered among the most aggressive breast cancer sub typeswith the worst prognosisTNBC is difficult to treat because ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Polychromatic flow cytometry FC is one of the most powerful analytical techniques used in immunology basic research and clinical medicine In basic research FC is a primary tool for understanding disease development at the cellular and subcellular levels In the rapidly developing field of immunotherapy FC is an indispensable tool for monitoring the effec ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The long term objective of this project study is to develop a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the progression of diabetic retinopathy Insulin like growth factor I IGF I has been implicated in both endothelial dysfunction as well as the proliferative phase of the disease but IGF I concentrations in retina are not increased During hyperglycemia IGF I activa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose to bring to market a novel regenerative medicine based therapy for fecal incontinence FI FI is the recurrent uncontrolled passage of fecal material The Internal Anal Sphincter IAS is responsible for maintaining anorectal continence Function of the IAS is dependent upon the neuromuscular integrity of both the smooth muscle and the intrinsic en ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis Parkinsonandapos s disease dementia spina bifida diabetes stroke and spinal cord injury SCI can result in loss of voluntary control over bladder and bowel function often producing both incontinence and retention of urine and stools in the same patient This has a profound impact on the mental and phy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Antisense and siRNA oligonucleotides offer the promise of highly precise manipulation of genes involved in disease pathogenesis However despite the investment of enormous resources that promise has been fulfilled to only a limited degree A key impediment to oligonucleotide based therapeutics is the difficulty in delivering these large highly polar molecule ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The treatment of large cartilage lesions is a difficult clinical problem for which there are few good solutions Left untreated these lesions tend to degenerate to chronic pain and osteoarthritis OA ultimately requiring a total joint replacement For patients suffering from knee OA and in particular unicompartmental OA unicondylar knee arthroplasty UK ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Malignant primary brain tumors represent the most frequent cause of cancer death in children and young adults and account for more deaths than cancer of the kidney or melanoma Glioblastoma GBM is uniformly lethal and current therapy is non specific and produces a median overall survival of andlt months In contrast immunotherapeutic approaches are exq ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Medical drugs and devices are regulated by the U S Food and Drug Administration FDA based on data from multicenter clinical trials In U S spending on clinical trials was approximately $ billion Over the past decade the efficiency of clinical trials has been improved by electronic data capture EDC systems whose use has increased from to ...