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PROJECT SUMMARY Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is an opioid withdrawal syndrome that develops shortly after birth to in utero-exposed neonates. The cost of NAS is high: newborns with NAS are typically receive care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where the daily cost of care is high. Nearly 22,000 infants are born with NAS each year at a cost of $1.5 billion1. Moreover, medication-b ...

? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this application is to study in vivo efficacy of CT102, a newly discovered inhibitor of the OLIG2 transcription factor in animal models of glioblastoma (GBM), a highly underserved area of pharmacotherapy. In this proposal, the experienced drug discovery group at Curtana Pharmaceuticals Inc. will conduct a pre-clinical evaluation of selectivity ...

Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) present a substantial threat to human and animal health worldwide. They are transmitted by hematophagous arthropods, in which mosquitoes are one of the main transmitters. The mosquito specie, Aedes aegypti, is the primary mosquito vector of several widely spread arboviruses as zika, dengue or West Nile viruses. Mosquitoes transmit these pathogens by inoculatin ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer continues to be a devastating disease with less than 10% 5-year survival. Pancreatic cancer is aggressive and there are no good tools for early detection. By the time of diagnosis, the tumor is often surgically unresectable. At this stage, patients are often treated with different chemotherapeutic agents or their combination, which while potent, have sign ...

Abstract One in five Americans has chronic pain. Many pharmacological pain interventions exist but increase risk of opioid use disorder (OUD). As a result, there is an urgent need for non-addictive pain treatments. One non- addictive pain treatments is neurofeedback, or electroencephalogram (EEG) biofeedback, which trains patients to regulate brain states linked to physiological relaxation. Neurof ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Gene transfer for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is bedeviled by inability to obtain, safely and easily, sufficient cardiac transgene expression. Current methods of gene transfer for heart disease include intramuscular injection into heart muscle or intracoronary delivery, approaches that are cumbersome to apply. Consequently, we have considered the u ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Myc is a key transcriptional regulator due to its critical role in many fundamental cellular processes, such as cell cycle progression and cell growth. Therefore, dysregulation of Myc expression can lead to disease, including cancer. Myc is overexpressed in many human tumors, and it is estimated that 1 in 7 cancer deaths in the United States are resultant of hi ...

Project Summary/Abstract Transcriptomic-based approaches, and in recent years, single-cell RNA sequencing, are revolutionizing our understanding of cellular heterogeneity, opening up a new route to identify novel cell markers at unprecedented scale across many different cell types. ​RNA-based live-cell sorting opens up andgt;99% of the marker space to enable higher specificity cell sorting. Howe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Leptospirosis a zoonotic disease is an important public health problem worldwide It is caused by spirochete bacteria belonging to nine species and more than serovars of the genus Leptospira In the US there is increasing awareness of the importance of leptospirosis as the cause of disease among inner city populations military personnel and individuals ...

Project Summary Genetic and pathologic evidence in andapos;pureandapos; tauopathies such as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasilar Degeneration (CBD) and some cases of Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD) directly implicate tau as causing neuronal cell death, while in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) tau accumulation correlates with development and progression of cognitive impairment. Because of ...