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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Candida species are opportunistic fungal pathogens that have become among the most common causes of nosocomial infections in the United States and worldwide. Disseminated infections caused by Candida spp. have increased 15-fold in incidence in the last 15 years, and Candida is now the third most common cause of bloodstream infections. Even with modern antifunga ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Throughout the World Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen. In areas with poor sanitary conditions C. trachomatis causes trachoma the most common cause of preventable blindness in the World. In symptomatic cases, unless therapy is implemented in a timely manner, long-term sequelae including, pelvic inflammatory disease ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The general goal of this proposal is to assemble directed mutant gene sets quickly, cheaply, easily, and reliably. Mutant gene sets can share sub-assemblies, yielding savings of time, cost, and effort not possible if designed and assembled all as single genes. The approach is to build upon experience gained in Phase I, to extend and generalize methods of DNA de ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Fast Track Small Business Technology Transfer study between Materia Inc in Pasadena CA and the University of Kansas intends to build upon successes of our current Phase II Fast Track STTR grant R GM which ends on March Preliminary results serve as a solid foundation for this Fast Track submission entitled andquot Development of Re ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mass spectrometry has become a method of choice for identifying and characterizing small quantities of proteins in complex mixtures However the ability to perform the identification in a high throughput fashion has depended on the availability of high quality protein sequence databases This means that proteins from organisms with unsequenced or poorly sequen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques and particularly multiphoton fluorescence microscopy have become popular tools for visualizing the three dimensional cellular architecture residing hundreds of microns and up to one millimeter deep in living organisms This is particularly valuable in neurobiology where multiphoton techniques have become widely used fo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Anasys Instruments and Prof Lynne Taylor of Purdue propose to develop nanoscale chemical characterization capabilities for drug formulation research This project will build on successful Phase I research demonstrating feasibility of atomic force microscope based infrared spectroscopy AFM IR in pharmaceutical applications This Phase II research will advance ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In it is estimated that there will be new bladder cancer cases in the United States resulting in deaths Most cases present with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer NMIBC Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guerin BCG which elicits a nonspecific local immune response is considered the standard first line treatment However ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Red Hill Studios and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing proposes to develop a computer-based videogame training program for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The program will feature a customizable Physical Gaming Regimen that will be based on an existing training program that has proven to be effective in improving gait ...