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Summary In recent years opioid use disorder OUD and deaths due to opiate overdose e g with heroin fentanyl oxycodone in suburban and rural non minority groups has created an urgency for approaches to stem this epidemic but the rise in OUD and opiate overdose deaths has occurred in inner cities at similar rates Heroin misuse and addiction are persistent problems in African American commu ...

Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

Project Summary This study aims to prove the concept and feasibility that TendonCure extracellular vesicles that contain signaling molecules i e exosomes secreted by mesenchymal stem cells i e tendon stem progenitor cells TSPCs or adipose derived stem cells ADSCs from individual patients donors cultured on a novel scaffold exert therapeutic efficacy on tendinopathy when injected into ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Lysosomal storage diseases LSD are rare inherited metabolic disorders caused by defects in the cellular catabolic system Mucopolysaccharidosis Type IIIC MPS IIIC or Sanfilippo disease type C is one such LSD that is caused by deficiency of the enzyme heparan sulfate acetyl CoA glucosaminide N acetyltransferase HGSNAT essential for degradation of heparan sulfate a repeati ...

The broader impact commercial potential of PathoVax s STTR phase I proposal is to improve outcomes of cancer immuno therapy utilizing a vaccine formulation combining an immunogenic chimeric virus like particle cVLP vaccine with FDA approved immune check point inhibitors PathoVax proposes to develop this technology for treatment of human papillomavirus HPV associated cancers However cancer ...

Project Summary Tractions exerted by individual cells on their surroundings play a critical role in mechanical events in biology such as tissue contraction folding cell shape changes or cell movements and in many basic cellular functions such as biochemical signaling proliferation and differentiation These processes are in turn implicated in the progression of diseases like cancer atherosc ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Dermal scarring affects more than million people worldwide annually over million people are injured in motor vehicle accidents over million patients are severely burned and thousands of warriors are wounded in military blasts In severe burns more than of patients develop hypertrophic scar contraction which leads to hypertrophic scar contractures HSc HSc a ...

Abstract The overall goal of this proposal is to develop systems for efficient ex vivo maturation of functional human red blood cells RBCs which holds tremendous potential for addressing supply bottlenecks for delivering new therapeutic options to chronically transfused patients with severe alloimmunization and for novel strategies for delivering therapeutics via engineered RBCs No approaches ...

Executive Summary of Predicate SBIR/STTR Phase I Grant and Team TenGen Biomedical Co. and Howard University received an STTR Phase I grant (5R41AI129119-02) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2017. The overall objective of our predicate STTR Phase I grant is to develop a safe, effective, and affordable Zika vaccine based on the novel concept of the third gene ...

Project Summary Abstract Effective communication intervention depends on reliable tools for identifying communication concerns and tracking changes in skills Established tools for detecting and tracking skills in early intentional communicators i e directing a behavior such as reaching toward an adult to convey a message involve communication temptations and assessing a wide variety of child ...