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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 ...

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 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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

Lack of recruitment of qualified research participants into clinical trials remains to be one of the most important issues in clinical research Studies often struggle to meet recruitment goals on time resulting in costly time extensions underpowered results and in some cases early termination Many reasons attribute to suboptimal recruitment including the challenges related to informing and c ...

SUMMARY Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency SSHDHD is an autosomal recessively inherited ultra rare disorder caused by accumulation of two neuromodulators in tissues and biofluids hydroxybutyrate GHB and aminobutyric acid GABA It is believed that the toxic action of GABA and GHB is mediated by their action on specific receptors widely distributed in the brain and other organ ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Congenital heart defects CHD represent the most common type of birth defect and are a leading cause of childhood deaths in the developed world Many forms of CHD require pulmonary valve PV replacement surgery which is typically performed with biologic valves such as human cadaveric donor valves which are in short supply Additionally such biologically ...