Award Data

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ovarian cancer is the fifth most leading cause of cancer related deaths in women in the US It has been observed that the cancer relapses within relatively short periods of time even after the surgery and chemotherapy Therefore immunotherapeutic strategies may serve as an alternative to control the recurrence or progression of ovarian cancer Oral vaccines ar ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Intracerebral hemorrhage ICH is a major public health problem with highest mortality rate of all stroke subtypes and long term disability Since there are no available FDA approved therapies for ICH it is of enormous importance to establish effective treatment for this medical condition Following ICH the deposited blood is damaging initially via compression ...

Vibrationally resonant sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy is a second order nonlinear optical technique that features high chemical selectivity and a set of selection rules that makes it an ideal complement to coherent Raman scattering (CRS) as an imaging tool. Attempts have been made to construct high-resolution, high speed SFG microscopes, but to date both the resolving power and image ...

There is an ongoing effort to replace high activity radioactive sources that could pose a risk for use as terrorist weapons with non-radioisotope based technologies. Currently radioactive sources serve a number of critical needs including the treatment and diagnosis of disease, inspection and certification of critical mechanical structures, the sterilization of food and medical products, ...

At present, CdZnTe is considered the material of choice for efficient, room temperature gamma-radiation detection systems used for the detection and identification of radionuclides. Despite the advances in CdZnTe materials technology during the last decade, the major impediments in the progress of - ray detection technology are the low yield of device quality materials and detectors, and the limit ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A new fluorescent analogue of d-glucose, 2-[N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diaxol-4-yl)amino]-2- deoxyglucose (2-NBDG), was recently developed, but has not been characterized as a marker of glucose uptake in cancer cells. Validating this new tracer as a glucose analogue for optical imaging of superficial tumors may have a major impact on clinical and preclinical imag ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tumor markers, measured in peripheral blood, could assist in diagnosis and management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and potentially improve historically dismal outcomes. Circulating antibodies, generated to a wide range of tumor-associated proteins, can be translated into a valuable blood test for lung cancer. Preliminary data supports this hypothesis. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The trigger for autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells in Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is unclear. Evidence exists for the role of increased intestinal permeability, secondary to intestinal tight junctions (tj) disassembly, in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases including T1 D. Over the last decade our studies have focused on the mechanism(s) of a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The increasing use of DNA as a molecular tool has ushered the technology of de novo synthesis of DNA back to the center stage of modern biology. We propose the development of a robust, ultra high-throughput (UHT) technology capable of genome-scale production of high fidelity synthetic DNA at about one percent of the cost and time of the current technologies. Ou ...