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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a growing body of evidence that implicates the protein kinase Pim-1 as a major driver of prostate cancer progression, and perhaps response to chemotherapy. Pim-1 is overexpressed in early prostate intraepithelial neoplasia and metastatic prostate cancer, and its levels predict response to therapy. Pim-1-overexpressing mouse prostate stem cells demonstr ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a significant need for novel HIV therapies given the emergence of viruses resistant to existing drug regimens. The Rev-RRE protein-RNA interaction in HIV plays an essential role in the transport of viral mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm where it can be translated or packaged. In preliminary work, two distinct assays targeting the HIV Rev protein ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Delays in FDA drug approval are measured in lost lives (estimated to be hundreds of thousands over the last few decades) and increased costs to U.S. citizens for drugs that are eventually approved. One factor contributing to the delay in drug approvals is the widespread use of time-consuming and error-prone manual methods to deliver medical images (i.e. CT, MR, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease is attributed to the lack of significant replicative potential of adult mammalian cardiomyocytes. Thus myocyte loss in response to ischemic injury typically results in scar formation and a decline of cardiac function that is usually irreversible. The cessation of myocyte proliferation is associated with ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): TOPIC - Tooth Phone(R) Auditory Device - TPAD ABSTRACT The Tooth Phone(R) Auditory Device - TPAD is new alternative device to the only direct bone conduction hearing aid currently accepted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of certain specific types of hearing loss. Unlike the precedent FDA approved device that uses an osseointegrated i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acid ceramidase (AC) has been implicated as a novel target for cancer therapy because of its pivotal role in regulating interconversion of three key bioactive lipids; ceramide (Cer), sphingosine (Sph) and Sphingosine-1-Phosphate (S1P). It is well known that Cer functions predominantly as a tumor suppressor lipid and mediator of apoptosis following chemo and rad ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Eliminating racial disparities in health is a top priority public health goal. African Americans have worse health outcomes and receive worse quality of care for a wide range of diseases, but addressing all of these various disparities in health and health care is not feasible. Instead, we must make judicious use of limited resources and target those aspects of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SciVee Inc.'s major product is a Web 2.0 resource that can be found as http://www.scivee.tv and is a YouTube for scientists but much more, as will be outlined subsequently. SciVee represents a potentially exciting and significant enhancement in scholarly communication. SciVee aggregates multimedia content (video, podcasts, text and figures) on topics of scienti ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A novel approach is needed to overcome the deficiencies of protein production technology and ensure the produced enzymes fold into physiologically effective three-dimensional conformations. We discovered that incorporation of novel archaeal chaperones into a host-vector system and into in vitro enzymatic reactions helps both to recover proteins from inclusion b ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The main goal of this project is a development of the high throughput data acquisition system based on single photon spectrometer which enables detection and highly accurate recognition of sets containing millions of stochastically encoded microparticles and the validation of this system using genome-wide copy number analysis as a model system. As an outcome of ...