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Psychosis resulting from schizophrenia spectrum disorders and major mood disorders is one of the most disabling health concerns worldwide. Evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions are recommended as standard of care by national psychosis treatment guidelines but are rarely accessible. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is the most well-researched psychotherapy for psychotic di ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Small Business Innovation Research SBIR Phase I project aims to develop a microfluidic based nitric oxide NO sensor as an early sepsis risk assessment device Sepsis causes significant strain on the U S healthcare system consuming over $ billion annually due to extended hospital stays and significant morbidity and mortality Rapid diagnosis and in ...

Project Summary Ebolavirus spp. cause a severe hemorrhagic fever known as Ebola virus disease (EVD). EVD is a serious public health concern, both as an emerging infectious disease and a potential biothreat. The 2013-2016 Ebola pandemic in West Africa brought global attention to the challenges associated with controlling an Ebola. The ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which rece ...

ABSTRACTCompany - Ithax Pharmaceutical is a new spin-off biotechnology company, located in Seattle, focused on developing proprietary small molecule chemistry to target RNA. The experience of its founders spans virology, drug design and RNA structure and function, and gives it a unique technological expertise in the RNA-targeting space. Their commercial expertise includes the successful founding, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening hypertensive crisis that predominantly affects individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) above T6. AD can be triggered idiopathically or by distention or manipulation of pelvic visceral organs, especially the bladder and bowel, which can occur with catheterization and fecal evacuation procedures that are necess ...

For patients with metastatic, somatostatin-receptor-2 (SSTR2) positive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), targeted therapy using 177Lu-DOTATATE greatly increases progression-free survival (PFS), as shown in the NETTER-1 trial. PFS at month 20 was 65.2% (95% CI, 50.0 - 76.8) for midgut NETs treated with 177Lu- DOTATATE alone compared to 10.8% (95% CI, 3.5 - 23.0) in a control group receiving 60 mg octre ...

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 ...