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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Sanfilippo syndrome mucopolysaccharidosis type III MPS III is a devastating neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder of childhood for which there is presently no cure or effective treatment available The fundamental cause of MPS III is an inherited mutation in one of the enzymes required to catabolize heparan sulfate HS a glycosaminoglycan which pla ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Craniosynostosis is the premature fusion of cranial sutures and occurs in approximately one in live births It results in cranial malformation that can lead to elevated intra cranial pressure brain growth impairment and developmental deficiency The most common treatment option for craniosynostosis is surgery Currently surgical treatment planning of c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Traverse Biosciences Inc is a pre clinical stage drug development company working to commercialize new chemical entities which act to resolve inflammatory conditions through pleiotropic host modulation of pathologically unrestrained matrix metalloproteinases MMPs and pro inflammatory cytokines The companyandapos s lead drug candidate TRB N is a proprietary chemic ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapyThe product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computingThe project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for a produc ...

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 ...

Project Summary Crystallization followed by subsequent structure determination is a major step in understanding the structure function relationship of macromolecules Understanding macromolecule structure has become a key part in the development of new pharmaceuticals and is a major area of NIH research Crystallization however is also the rate limiting step despite technological efforts to a ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Antiviral drugs are a crucial countermeasure for influenza A virus IAV particularly in circumstances of increased IAV incidence or if a vaccine is unavailable e g virulent H N IAV However the emergence of IAV strains that are resistant to current antivirals H N underscores the need for new treatment strategies particularly those that modify the host response IAVs ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantTriple negative breast cancerTNBCis one of the most aggressive forms of human cancerand currently has no targeted therapyChemotherapy is the only available treatment for TNBC patientsbut is deleterious and not effective once tumor spreadsTNBC represents a major unmet medical needaboutof breast cancer incidenceswomen worldwide inare TNBCTNBC disproportionally affects ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insulin resistance IR also known as metabolic syndrome is tied to obesity and is associated with numerous modern health problems including the growing problems of type diabetes and cardiovascular disease The growing health economic and social burdens of these conditions calls for the need to develop drug treatments for IR We know from multiple lines of ...

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 ...