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DESCRIPTION Based on the prevailing evidence we believe that a highly effective vaccine for HIV prophylaxis must induce long lasting broadly cross reactive antibody responses to envelope that exhibit antiviral activity as well as multi antigen polyfunctional CD and CD T cell responses that produce antiviral chemokines and cytokines and are possibly biased towards an effector memory phenot ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Aptamer Based Detection of Cardiac Biomarker Glycosylation States Using APT SNAP Arrays PIs Christopher L Warren and Mary S Ozers The presence of cardiac related biomarkers in patient biospecimens can provide important insight into diagnosis of cardiovascular disease its progression and optimal therapies for treatment Most of the cardiac biomarkers in cli ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Since the first procedure in there has been an explosive growth in transcatheter aortic valve replacement TAVR Up to date more than TAVR had been performed worldwide Despite the increased global experience with TAVR severe adverse events associated with TAVR have been extensively documented including annulus rupture coronary occlusion para ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram positive human pathogen that causes a wide range of infections from skin and soft tissue infections SSTI to life threatening sepsis and pneumonia The pathogenicity of S aureus is dependent on numerous virulence factors including cell surface proteins and polysaccharides as well as secreted toxins An important group of thes ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Primorigen Biosciences R Project Abstract Primorigen will use SBIR funds to develop a paradigm changing technology for expansion and directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells hPSCs using a novel peptide that dramatically reduces costs by amplifying the impact of endogenous growth factors and minimizing the need for exogenous growth factors Th ...

DESCRIPTION Malaria causes andgt million clinical cases and million deaths annually is responsible for andgt loss of GDP in Africa and is a serious concern for travelers and military personnel A highly effective vaccine is desperately needed and radiation attenuated Plasmodium falciparum Pf sporozoites SPZ and non attenuated PfSPZ with chloroquine chemoprophylaxis ChemoProphylax ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Long term anti angiogenic activity of intravitreal ellipsoid particles for NVAMD Niranjan B Pandey Ph D PI Aleksander S Popel Ph D Co I Jordan J Green Ph D Co I Peter A Campochiaro M D Co I of subaward Project Summary Current therapies for wet age related macular degeneration AMD target vascular endothelial growth factors VEGFA and pla ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cardiomyopathy has various forms including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM in prevalence could cause sudden cardiac death in athletes Dilated Cardiomyopathy DCM in prevalence results in an enlarge left ventricle Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia Cardiomyopathy ARVD C in prevalence causes cardiac fibrosis Yearly over $ ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Despite the advance of antibiotics sepsis remains a major challenge to human health as both survival and incidence of severe sepsis have been largely unchanged in the last two decades It is therefore important to develop new therapeutic approaches We have recently reported that bacterial sialidases may serve as therapeutic targets for polybacterial sepsis H ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is a strong unmet need for a low cost and convenient technology that can assist researchers and healthcare personnel in gathering vascular data Such vascular imaging technology could assist in the short term clinica research on the diagnostics disease progression and effect of treatment prevention strategies ...