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In this proposed SBIR program, IBC Materials & Technologies, in conjunction with our industry partner Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (MSI) and Texas A&M University, will leverage our knowledge and experience in the domain of industrial metallic coatings to develop a metallurgical coating solution for the Air Foil Bearing. IBC has deep expertise in a variety of industrial coating processes including mu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is a major public health problem and a leading cause of mortality claiming more than half million lives every year in the US While major progresses have been made in developing targeted anticancer therapeutics many cancers such as lung cancers have no effective treatments Unfortunately many ideal oncogenic targets including transcription factors for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Reverse phase protein arrayRPPAhas emerged as a promising antibody based highly quantitative proteomic technology suitable for profiling proteins in hundreds to thousands of patient samplesThe throughputsensitivityand cost effectiveness of RPPAtogether with its ability to deal with minuscule sample amountshave propelled applications of the technology in basicpreclinical and clinica ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women between the ages of and and responsible for deaths annually If treated early five year survival rates for patients in the U S are between and but drop to once metastatic breast cancer has developed Thus there is a great need to develop more effective treatment strategies fo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics based on nucleic acids NA promise to revolutionize treatment of multiple diseases but their widespread use is currently limited by the lack of efficient delivery methods We have recently developed a new NA delivery platform based on polymeric CXCR inhibitors PCX suitable as dual function systems for simultaneous NA delivery and inhibition of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adeno associated virus AAV is a non pathogenic human parvovirus and recombinant AAV vectors have gained significant attention owing to their safety and in some cases clinical efficacy in a number of Phase I II clinical trials However relatively large vector doses are needed to achieve clinical efficacy and such high doses can lead to host immune respon ...