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Project Summary Sanfilippo disease (mucopolysaccharidosis type III; MPS III) is a devastating neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder of childhood whose pathologic features are neurologic: slowing of development, severe behavioral problems, progressive cognitive decline, dementia, and decline in motor skills leading to immobility, unresponsiveness, and death. We have focused on MPS IIID cause ...

Project Summary/Abstract According to the ADA, 25.8 million children and adults have diabetes. Diabetics have an increased risk of complications such as heart disease and are prone to impaired wound healing. A major cause of morbidity and hospitalizationis diabetic foot ulceration (DFUs) that may result in infection, gangrene, amputations requiring prolonged hospitalization, costly treatments, an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant According to the ADA million children and adults have diabetes Diabetics have an increased risk of complications such as heart disease and are prone to impaired wound healing A major cause of morbidity and hospitalization is diabetic foot ulceration DFUs that may result in infection gangrene amputations requiring prolonged hospitalization costly tr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are unmet medical needs in the limited biologic therapeutics for adults with rheumatoid arthritis RA associated with $ billion annual US health care and societal costs These are due to inadequate efficacy prohibitive costs poor adherence and safety issues infections andamp malignancies Oral small molecule based therapies are warranted due to ...

Project Summary/Abstract There is no validated assay to reliably detect the early onset of the Lyme disease infection at the time when antibiotic therapy has the best chance of a cure without sequelae. Diagnosis is often difficult because most symptoms are often nebulous, with the telltale “bulls-eye” rash only appearing and clearly recognizable in approximately half of cases. The standard typ ...

Project SummaryThe purpose of the proposed work is first-in-man testing of novel painless defibrillation (PaDe) therapy. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains the number one killer in western civilization. The underlying mechanism of SCA is usually ventricular fibrillation (VF), and survival depends on prompt defibrillation. Existing defibrillators rely on the delivery of a brief high voltage shock ...

Project Summary/Abstract Inhibition of ceramide protects mice from death from the Radiation GI Syndrome (RGS). Administration of anti- ceramide single-chain Fv (scFv) 24 h post radiation exposure increases survival in intestinal stem cells and dramatically improves overall survival in mice. These data indicate that anti-ceramide scFv represents the first effective mitigator of lethal RGS. To advan ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The focus of this project is a novel immunomodifying therapy that provides protection from early allograft rejection in the absence of the standard toxic systemic immunosuppressive drug regimens This novel therapy is a nano barrier membrane called NB LVF consisting of a matrix made of laminin vitrogen fibronectin and type IV collagen NB LVF is applied to ...

An Influenza pandemic remains an acute threat to world health; and stockpiling a universally protective Influenza vaccine provides a strong defense against this potential catastrophe. The hemagglutinin (HA) protein is the primary target of humoral Ab responses to Influenza; the majority of broadly protective mAbs (bnAbs) against influenza isolated from humans recognize conserved and conformation-s ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases in the U.S., affecting up to 16% of the population and substantially diminishing the quality of life and productivity of patients. In four years, the annual U.S. health care expenditure to treat patients with CRS dramatically increased from $9B to $64B (5% of the health care budget), with a correspondin ...