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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Of all the hundreds of types of synthetic middle ear implants that are used in surgery approximately of these are rejected by the body These include total ossicular replacement prostheses TORPs and partial ossicular replacement prostheses PORPs TORPs are used in general when during surgery it is noted that the malleus incus and stapes are all absen ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantTriple negative breast cancerTNBCis one of the most aggressive forms of human cancerand currently has no targeted therapyChemotherapy is the only available treatment for TNBC patientsbut is deleterious and not effective once tumor spreadsTNBC represents a major unmet medical needaboutof breast cancer incidenceswomen worldwide inare TNBCTNBC disproportionally affects ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal is in response to PA the parent announcement for STTR R grant applications Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become a preferred treatment for hematological malignancies and certain genetic disorders The use of umbilical cord blood cells as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation has increased st ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Use of illicit drugs and abuse of licit counterparts are associated with multiple physical health emotional and interpersonal problems Cardiovascular disease stroke cancer HIV AIDS anxiety depression and sleep problems financial difficulties and legal complications work and family problems can all result from or be exacerbated by drug abuse In ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Alcohol addiction and disorders associated to excessive alcohol use are a serious public health problem in the United States and in other parts of the world Current pharmacotherapies for the treatment of these disorders show limited efficacy Preclinical and clinical findings point to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors nAChRs as an alternative promising target for the developmen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insulin resistance IR also known as metabolic syndrome is tied to obesity and is associated with numerous modern health problems including the growing problems of type diabetes and cardiovascular disease The growing health economic and social burdens of these conditions calls for the need to develop drug treatments for IR We know from multiple lines of ...

Project Summary Abstract Electron beam therapy EBT using MeV beams provides effective radiation treatment for superficial cancers depthandlt cm As many as of radiotherapy patients in USA annually are eligible for electron therapy for some portion of their treatment making it the second most used external beam modality As many as of these electron patients ...

Project Summary Pancreatitis is a significant public health problem accounting for over $ Billion of health care costs annually Approximately one third of patients with acute pancreatitis will go on to have recurrent pancreatitis Of those about will progress to chronic pancreatitis a painful disease with an increased risk of both diabetes and pancreatic cancer More than of people w ...

Project Summary Abstract The long term objective of this project is the generation of a universal drug discovery platform based on protein arginine methylation mechanisms involved in human disease The importance of protein arginine methylation in the context of human disease has become clear in the last few years with the realization that protein arginine methyltransferases and the target prot ...