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PROJECT SUMMARY Enzyme by DesignIncEbDis developing a safer version of L asparaginase that can be used routinely in the treatment of adult ALL patients whose hypersensitivity to todayandapos s bacterial L asparaginases deprives them from this efficacious therapyEbDandapos s L asparaginase is novel due to its mammalianguinea pigorigin and its lack of L glutaminase co activityThe need for better the ...

Principal Investigators for Small BusinessDiscoveryBioMedIncDBMand Monell Chemical Senses Center Project Summary Abstract Bitter taste in foods and medicines presents a barrier to overcoming global public health challengesfood insecuritypoor nutritional healthand poor compliance with medication useparticularly among children and the elderlySugar and saltthe mainstays to address these challengesfur ...

Traumatic brain injuryTBIis a substantial health care issue affecting both civilian and military populationsAlthough extremes of head injury are recognizablemild to moderate TBImmTBIis more difficult to diagnose leading to a need for the identification of circulating biomarkers of brain injury that may facilitate early identificationUsing a rat model of TBI we identified a novel marker of neuronal ...

PROJECT SUMMARY: COVID-19 is significantly more lethal in the elderly1 with the greatest risk in those cared for in long-term care facilities (LTCs) where mortality rates range from 19% to 72% worldwide. Monitoring COVID-19 infections in LTCs remains a particular challenging. The existing and a continued expected shortage of sufficient molecular COVID-19 testing coupled to false negative rates as ...

Project Summary Abstract Kidney stonesKSare highly prevalentexcruciatingand associated with long term complications of chronic kidney diseaseCKDand end stage renal diseaseESRDThey account forM ER visits and andgt $B of medical costs annually and have a striking recurrence rate ofinyears and up toinyearsreflecting the inadequacies of current interventionsof KS are composed of calcium oxalate and sm ...

Project Summary Abstract Peripheral T cell lymphomaPTCLis a heterogeneous cancer that constitutes up toof all non Hodgkin lymphomaNHLThe World Health Organization classification recognizes a number of distinct subtypes of PTCL but the diagnosis of these different subtypes is challenging even for expert hematopathologistsFurthermoreof PTCL cases are not classifiable into any specific subtype at all ...

PROJECT SUMMARY There is a clear unmet need for effective treatments for acute myeloid leukemiaAMLAn exciting new mechanism for targeting cancer cells involves the activation of the extrinsic apoptotic pathway by administering the soluble domain of TNF related apoptosis inducing ligandTRAILcalled dulanerminMuch hope has been placed on this drug since TRAIL has been shown to bind to death receptors ...

ABSTRACT Vaccine adjuvants help stimulate the body to generate an immune response when co injected with an antigenthe compound for which immunity is desiredAlthough the human body is capable of producing antibodies to most injected antigensadjuvants can help boost the body s ability to mount a successful and acquired immune response to the presented targetAdjuvants have been shown to enhance immun ...

Project Summary The andapos immunosandwichandaposassay is a robustflexible and sensitive test that is widely employed in clinical diagnostics for monitoring human health and diseaseIt is based on using pairs of antibodies that recognize different epitopes of the target analytethereby providing both sensitivity and specificityUnfortunatelyidentifying pairs of antibodies that work in sandwich assays ...

The goal of this workis to establish a radiation-aware capability in a commercial EDA design flow that will enable first-pass success in radiation resiliency for DoD ASIC designs in much the same way that existing EDA design suites ensure first pass functionality and performance success of complex ASICs destined for commercial applications.Such an integrated capability does not presently exist.The ...