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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The mission of Bioniks is to develop and commercialize accurate low cost movement analysis systems for clinicians ergonomists athletic trainers and other professionals interested in quantifying human movement Our initial focus is on developing computer enhancements for inexpensive D cameras like the Microsoft Kinect These enhancements surpass the accura ...

Project Summary This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project proposes the development and optimization of a commercially viable novel polymer based radiation dosimeter for wide spread deployment The radiation dosimeter proposed herein is a disruptive technology with a significant market Although many commercial radiation dosimeters measure individual radiation load dose quantificatio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hazardous compounds in waters and soils are subject to a complex dynamic web of interactions among physical chemical and biological constituents in the natural environment Computational modeling has been proven indispensable to hazardous substances remediation particularly integrated modeling of pollutant hydrogeological fate and transport For the first t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Overall Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive bacteria which possesses a multitude of virulence factors It is a frequent and severe pathogen in hospitals and of increasing concern in the community where it results in severe skin infections pneumonia bacterial endocarditis and sepsis A significant proportion of these infections are the result of methici ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant will determine the efficacy of a humanized monoclonal antibody in treating a lethal Pseudomonas-induced lung injury. We have shown that the airspace instillation of a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that contains the type Il system predictably causes lung necrosis, sepsis and death (J Clin Invest 1999). We have also shown th ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is a major public health problem and a leading cause of mortality claiming more than half million lives every year in the US While major progresses have been made in developing targeted anticancer therapeutics many cancers such as lung cancers have no effective treatments Unfortunately many ideal oncogenic targets including transcription factors for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Androgen blockage therapy may relieve the symptom of an advanced, localized prostate tumor; however, once the tumor evolves into a hormone-refractory stage, there is no effective treatment. A continuous activation of AR by antiandrogens (used in androgen blockage therapy) or other "nonconventional" agonists may contribute to prostate cancer progression in patie ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Triple negative breast cancers TNBCs account for of breast cancer deaths and lack targeted therapies Drs Sonenshein Mineva and Romagnoli and their co workers recently identified the non essential cell surface protein ADAM A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease as a pivotal promoter of breast tumor growth and metastasis and validated it as a target o ...

Angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation) is a critical step for tumor growth and metastasis, and its inhibition is currently the most promising approach for cancer therapy. Contortrostatin (ON) is a protein isolated from southern copperhead snake venom, which has been shown to effectively block angiogenesis, as well as metastasis. The potent inhibitory effect of CN on cancer ...