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Project Summary / Abstract Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a major side effect of oxaliplatin, a key drug in 1st line regimens for treating colorectal cancer. Dose-limiting CIPN prevents rt25% of patients from receiving full, maximally effective dose of oxaliplatin. In addition, 10-40% of patients receiving oxaliplatin-based therapy for colorectal cancer with develop chronic C ...

The overall goal of this collaborative project between Neurodon and Indiana University School of Medicine is the development of compounds that will offer disease-modifying treatments for type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) mellitus, a sorely unmet need. In this initial STTR project, we will use our expertise in medicinal chemistry, cell biology, and diabetes pathophysiology to functionally test ...

PROJECT SUMMARYLoss of functional mobility associated with aging is the leading cause of dangerous falls and loss of living independence. Approximately 60% of community-residing individuals rt80 years-old have a gait disorder, and abnormal gait patterns are associated with a greater than two-fold increased risk of institutionalization and death in comparison to age-related adults without gait impa ...

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is the predominant neurodegenerative disease of aging. Recent animal studies have demonstrated that the earliest cochlear pathology due to noise and aging involves a loss of the inner hair cell ribbon synapse. The early consequences of this synaptic loss are not believed to affect hearing sensitivity, but rather, impair speech understanding in background noise. Whil ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Sarya LLC (Sarya) is a nuclear medicine technology company formed to commercialize radiopharmaceuticals. The goal of this Fast-Track STTR is to develop a new specific imaging agent for diagnosis, staging, and treatment of the hematological cancer, multiple myeloma (MM). MM is the 2nd most common blood cancer with an estimated 32,000 new cases and 13,000 deaths per year. Accurate de ...

Abstract Hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (hfTC) is a disease in which patients cannot produce the bioactive form of the hormone Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), which is secreted by osteocytes to rid the body of phosphate by acting on the kidney. hfTC is characterized by markedly elevated serum phosphate (Pi) which causes large intramuscular calcifications to develop. The calcifi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT This Phase I project is a pilot randomized clinical trial designed to show commercial potential for a novel virtual reality intervention in preparation for Phase II development. We propose testing our adjunctive intervention for efficacy on reducing opioid use and increasing abstinence in early recovering opioid use disorder (OUD) persons, with concomitant increases in s ...

ABSTRACT “High-risk” human papillomavirus (HPV) types such as 16 (HPV-16) are identified in the majority of HPV- associated pre-malignant and malignant pathologies of cervical, anogenital, and oropharyngeal epithelia. The E6 protein is essential for viral replication. Structure-based computational screening followed by design and synthesis of derivatives led to the identification of a series o ...

Mitofusin agonists for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases Gerald W Dorn II, MD Mitochondria in Motion, Inc. Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine Abstract: A number of rare neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by mitochondrial fragmentation, dysmotility and dysfunction. Among these are Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington’s Disease (HD), which cause ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Klebsiella pneumoniae is an encapsulated human pathogen capable of causing a myriad of human infections. Recently, K. pneumoniae has also emerged as one the most common causes of secondary bacterial pneumonia in COVID-19 patients. Over the last 40 years, K. pneumoniae has evolved into two distinct pathotypes, known as classical K. pneumoniae (cKp) and hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (h ...