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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Bipolar disorder BD is a complex chronic illness characterized by recurrent often dramatic mood changes Self management of BD is an important component of treatment but is likewise complex and can be fraught with difficulties including misunderstanding of the condition and a lack of self awareness Combined with the nationwide shortage of mental healthcare ...

ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apnea OSA is the most common type of sleep apnea OSA affects an estimated million adults and of all children in the US OSA results in tiredness depression and fatigue and has several associated common comorbidities It is believed that over of OSA remains undiagnosed The prevalence of OSA increases with age and if untreated increases the risk of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this Phase II project is to optimize and validate a microfluidic chip based process that automates and shortens the labeling washing and collecting of human blood leukocytes WBCs for flow cytometric analysis of clinically important cell surface and intracellular markers Multi parameter flow cytometry is an increasingly powerful and widely used t ...

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 RNA interference RNAi is a small RNA guided gene silencing process within living cells The RNAi technique is widely used in both biological research and clinical applications because it has the ability to knockdown essentially any gene of interest However one major unresolved issue in RNAi studies is non specific gene silencing It is well known that in ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR is to identify novel small molecule compounds targeting the nitrogen respiration pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa This pathway is crucial to the pathogenesis of P aeruginosa in vivo but has not yet been exploited for antimicrobial drug discovery There is a clear need for new treatments to combat P aeruginosa infections Antibiotic re ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hepatocellular carcinoma HCC is the most prevalent cancer in human population and will lead to over deaths in the United States this year alone However the molecular mechanisms driving hepatocellular carcinoma HCC growth and metastasis remain elusive and there is a huge unmet medical need to find new therapeutic targets We performed an unbiased ...

The goal of this fast track STTR proposal is to expand buprenorphine maintenance therapy for opioid dependent patients Over million people in the US are addicted to opiates Providing effective agonist therapy methadone or buprenorphine coupled with behavioral counseling greatly improves outcomes reduces morbidity and reduces societal costs Methadone maintenance treatment has been limit ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The EPA estimates that one out of every four Americans lives within three miles of a hazardous waste site Over brownfield sites are awaiting remediation and sites on the National Priorities List Potential Responsible Parties or the Superfund program are tasked with remediating these sites but insufficient funding and growing number of sites hav ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is a critical need for a safe and effective vaccine against HIV Decades of work have been invested in understanding the immune response to infection and different approaches have been taken to develop vaccines that are effective in preventing and treating the disease While effective in animal models none have been as effective in humans The immune ...