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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ebola and Marburg viruses belong to the family Filoviridae and can cause fatal hemorrhagic fevers characterized by widespread tissue destruction with an incubation period of days Because of the safety concerns these viruses are designated as the biosafety level agents Currently there is no effective vaccine or therapeutic treatment against filoviral i ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lassa fever virus LASV and Machupo virus MACV are hemorrhagic fever arenaviruses which are classified as Category A Agents Currently there are no licensed LASV or MACV vaccines and LASV MACV therapy is limited to use of the nucleoside analog ribavirin which is only partially effective and associated with significant side effects The impact of arenavirus ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The development of vaccine to combat Enterotoxigenic E coli ETEC is vital given the pathogenandapos s global impact on million individuals annually however an entirely new non conventional approach is needed Field studies have suggested that inert antigen based vaccines to combat ETEC have andquot essentially no efficacyandquot Therefore a vaccin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Babesia microti the primary etiologic agent of human babesiosis is a tick borne eukaryotic apicomplexan pathogen that is an increasing threat to the US public health Although B microti is primarily a tick borne pathogen it can be transmitted by transfusion of infected blood Despite the well recognized threat there is no FDA licensed test to screen donor ...

Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating inflammatory disease that is the most common neurological disease of young adults, affecting over 350,000 patients in the US and over 2.5 million patients worldwide. MS is a disease of high unmetmedical need, currently treatable with one of several approved drugs, all of which result in either immune modulation or significant immunosuppre ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A family of conserved toll-like receptors (TLRs) found on a variety of human cell types plays an important role in recognition of invading pathogens and in mounting an effective inflammatory immune response. Each these receptors binds a specific microbial ligand and triggers a signal transduction pathway leading to transcription of genes encoding pro-inflammato ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes a breakthrough development involving the chemical design and synthesis of stabilized bacteriochlorin molecules to carry out photodynamic therapy. These novel photosensitizers (PS) have very intense absorption bands in the near-infrared region of the spectrum where tissue penetration is maximized and good yields of the triplet excited sta ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tobacco use and nicotine addiction are an immense burden on the public health. There are an estimated 44.5 million (21%) adult smokers and an estimated 3.75 million (22%) high school student smokers in the US. Tobacco use is responsible for over 440,000 deaths per year in the US, which accounts for 1 in every 5 total deaths. Approximately 70% of the adult smoke ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Novel Intervention for Colitis The scope of the current proposal is to determine whether administration of an apoE mimetic peptide, COG112, improves clinical, histological and inflammatory outcomes in clinically relevant paradigms of colitis. Specifically, we will employ the acute Citrobacter rodentium (C. rodentium) model, an acute Dextran Sulfate Sodium (DSS) ...