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PROJECT SUMMARYAminoglycosides are one of the cheapest and well-known antibiotics in clinical use for over 70 years, but one of the major limitations in their use is their ototoxicity. We are developing fast and low cost methods to develop aminoglycosides with anti- ribosomal activities and reduced toxicity. In this project, we will identify novel aminoglycoside antibacterials, that show reduced o ...

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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACTAdvances in health care have been dramatic since the beginning of the millenniumAs a resultpeople are living longer with age related diseasesand the number of older individuals unable to live independently is rising rapidlyMobile computing offers an unprecedented opportunity to unobtrusively monitor behavior and use the large amount of collected data to automate analysis of ...

Formalin fixed paraffin embeddedFFPEtissue archives represent the largest clinically annotated human specimen repositoryThe estimated millions of available FFPE tissue samples provide vast resource for the discovery of disease epigenetic pathwaysbiomarkers and drug targetsAnd yetthese samples are highly underutilized because current methods for extracting molecular information from FFPE samples ar ...

Project Summary Abstract The annual incidence of head and neck cancers worldwide is more thancases with arounddeaths each yearand it is estimated that inthere will benew cases of non Hodgkin lymphoma with an estimateddeaths this yearIn this proposalwe describe a strategy to use a novel subset of natural killer cellsg NK cellsallogeneically for cancer therapyWe hypothesize that expansion and adopti ...

PROJECT SUMMARYHereditary cancer risk assessment in low resource community cancer settings is a signi cant unmet clinical needUnfortunatelymost community cancer clinics do not have adequate access to genetics expertise and patients are not systematically assessed for hereditary riskNew cost e ective and practical approaches are needed to assess and identify patients at risk for hereditary cancer c ...

Hepatic ischemia reperfusion injuryIRIoccurs in many clinical situationssuch as traumahepatic surgerye gliver resection for tumor treatmentliver donation and transplantationshock and vascular diseasesHepatic I R causes severe liver injury and promotes inflammationleading to liver dysfunctionmultiple organ failure and deathIt also compromises long term outcomes after surgery and traumaCurrentlyno e ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Medial arterial calcification is a form of vessel hardening in which calcium deposits are found in the medial layer of elastic and muscular arteriesspecifically on elastic fibersleading to arterial stiffening and tearingAn independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in diabetic and chronic kidney disease patientsit predisposes the patients to cardiovascular mortality and lo ...

Radical prostatectomyRPis a commonly used treatment option for localized prostate cancerUnfortunatelythe procedure carries a risk of post surgical complications including a high risk of erectile dysfunctionEDThe main pathophysiological mechanism behind this is neuropraxia in which surgery either directly damages the cavernous nervesCNor does so indirectly through activation of an inflammatory resp ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with some sub-types remaining essentially untreatable, expansion of available drug targets will provide significant new options for the development ofmore effective antineoplastic agents. The major goal of this project is to apply a unique drug discovery strategy to cancer drug development. Th ...