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Project Summary Natural products have served as a productive source of drugs over the past decades and have represented, or been the inspiration for, a majority of antimicrobial compounds that have entered the clinic. The goal of this proposal is to develop novel antibacterial agents based on the marine natural product lipoxazolidinone A to treat recalcitrant Gram-positive infections. These scaffo ...

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 Natural products have served as a productive source of drugs over the past decades and have represented, or been the inspiration for, a majority of antimicrobial compounds that have entered the clinic. The goal of this proposal is to develop novel antibacterial adjuvants based on the marine natural product synoxazolidinone B to treat Gram-positive orthopedic joint infections. These ...

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 ...

Project Summary NeuroGT, Inc is a new start-up company founded by Dr. Haiyan Fu, Associate professor in the Gene Therapy Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the mission of develop and commercialize effective gene therapy products to treat rare neurogenetic diseases in humans. The goal of this project is to develop an effective gene therapy product targeting the root cause f ...

PROJECT SUMMARYRNA is a validated target for drug design, both as therapeutic and as a target. Targeting specific RNA, such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival of bacteria is a promising approach. We are developing fast and low cost methods to screen sequence-specific small molecules for novel anti-ribosomal activities. We will construct sequence-specific chemically modified r ...

The advent of checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy in human cancer has dramatically changed the landscape of treatment strategies in recent years. Previously, cancers with largely ineffective therapeutics and a poor prognosis, such as melanoma, have experienced significant advances of patients able to extend survival and/or progression free disease. Within the tumor microenvironment, a number of imm ...

Contact PD/PI: GILGER, BRIAN C Abstract Corneal blindness is a leading cause of global blindness, with allogeneic corneal transplantation (CT) being the most common form of tissue transplantation worldwide. Though approximately 180,000 CT surgeries are carried out each year, around 12.7 million are currently awaiting a donor cornea to undergo the operation. Still, CT surgery is accompanied by a hi ...

ABSTRACT Microscale simulations have been applied to a number of complex microfluidic systems and biological applications, but existing methods are limited in the scale and scope of problems that are addressable. Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory (TCAT) is an established approach that can be used to formulate customized macroscale models that are consistent with microscale physics and ...

PROJECT SUMMARY . Collecting complete and accurate outcome data directly from research participants is becoming increasingly important. Clinical researchers needs a cost-effective approach to capture high-quality patient-reported outcomes. Typically, data captured directly from participants is through self-administered questionnaires or through a human interviewer, each with their own advantages ...