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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The worldwide health problem created by malaria has been made more difficult by the spread of drug resistant parasites We have developed an orally available and inexpensive class of novel drugs that act against both chloroquine resistant and chloroquine sensitive malaria This project carries on preclinical development of a drug candidate that has been select ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Advances in DNA sequencing technology have now made it practical and affordable to generate datasets containing millions of genetic attributes that can be tested for association with disease susceptibility The computational complexity of searching for genetic interactions over such high dimensional datasets imposes great challenges for genome wide associatio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among youth with lifetime prevalence ranging between of the general population Among anxiety disorders social anxiety disorder SAD affects of all youth resulting in significant short and long term impairment including increased likelihood of substance abuse limited academic achievemen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Using mouse monoclonal antibodies mAbs raised against the mediators of quorum sensing QS the Auto Inducing Peptides AIPs researchers at The Scripps Research Institute TSRI have demonstrated that S aureus infections can be prevented in animal challenge models This approach known as quorum quenching QQ is unique in at least two significant ways fi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram negative bacterium that is the causative agent of melioidosis The bacterium causes significant morbidity and mortality in tropical regions and endemic areas are expanding Melioidosis is difficult to trea and diagnose due to the fact that B pseudomallei is resistant to common antibiotics and symptoms are non specific Morta ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Systemic lupus erythematosus SLE is a devastating autoimmune disease that most commonly affects women in their child bearing years SLE attacks multiple organ systems but renal and neurologic involvement are the usual harbingers of poor outcome Despite effective albeit toxic immunosuppressive therapy only of patients with these serious manifestations ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant B cell lymphoma is cancer of B lymphocytes and accounts for more than deaths in the U S each year While many patients respond to currently available therapy there is a high rate of cancer relapse and inability for the patients o tolerate chemotherapy Thus there is a significant need to make available to these patients newer therapies that are more e ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The congenital long QT syndrome LQTS is thought to occur in in infants and cause of deaths from SIDS sudden infant death syndrome Electrocardiograms ECGs can detect LQTS before fatal cardiac events happen In our Phase I STTR project we successfully developed and tested an ECG device designed for LQTS screening in newborns This device n ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Non alcoholic steatohepatitis NASH is characterized by fatty changes in the liver with inflammation and hepatocellular injury that in advanced stages leads to fibrosis and cirrhosis and high mortality rates NASH is frequently associated with other common metabolic abnormalities such as insulin resistance and visceral obesity Liver transplantation is curren ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The leading cause of mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis CF is pulmonary failure from lung infections and the predominant organism isolated from these infections is the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung infections of CF patients persist over the lifetime of the patients and are impossible to eradicate due to the ability of bacteria to form biofi ...