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PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Persistent disease activity PDA in spite of anti vascular endothelial growth factor VEGF therapy remains a significant clinical unmet need for patients with neovascular age related macular degeneration NVAMD The purpose of this STTR Phase I grant application is to develop novel therapies that will be effective for the treatment of PDA associated with NVAMD The cu ...

Project Summary Occidiofungin is a cyclic nonribosomally synthesized antifungal peptide with submicromolar fungicidal activity against a broad spectrum of fungi Occidiofungin is produced by the Gram negative bacterium Burkholderia contaminans From our structural characterization studies occidiofungin was determined to have a unique chemical composition Our studies have also revealed that occi ...

ABSTRACT Recent studies of the applicants support the role of the endogenous gaseous biological mediator hydrogen sulfide H S in colorectal cancer In specific the selective upregulation of cystathionine synthase CBS and the subsequent production of H S in colonic cancer cells serves as a pro survival factor by stimulating tumor cell bioenergetics ...

ABSTRACT Triple negative breast cancerTNBCis a molecular subtype of breast cancer that is negative for expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptorHERClinicallyit is characterized by aggressive behaviordistinct patterns of metastasisand high rates of recurrence and mortalitySince TNBC tumor cells lack the necessary receptorsthe disease does not respo ...

Project Summary Abstract Glioblastoma GBM is the most common primary brain tumor and one of the deadliest forms of cancer Standard surgery chemotherapy and radiation fail to eliminate the infiltrative invasive cancer cells Median survival remains only months Drugs that seek out the disseminated GBM cells behind the blood brain barrier will prevent the inevitable recurrence in patients ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Mucus dysfunction underlies the pathophysiology of a number of common respiratory diseases including asthma cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD Asthma alone impacts of the US population resulting in considerable cost morbidity and occasional mortality caused by mucus hypersecretion Recently it was discovered that Synaptotagmin Syt regul ...

Polo like kinase PLK is a central player in regulating entry into and progression through mitosis Many studies have validated PLK as an anti tumor drug target and its inhibition is potently anti proliferative to cancer cells However recent data suggests that there are two major disadvantages of the conventional approach to blocking the kinase activity of PLK First both general kinome ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Antibody drug conjugates ADCs are monoclonal antibodies mAbs that are covalently linked to cell killing drugs and have emerged as a major modality in anti cancer treatment This approach combines high specificity of mAbs against their antigen targets with highly potent cytotoxic drugs resulting in armed mAbs that deliver the payload drug to tumor cells with enriched levels ...

Project Summary Genome editing technologies such CRISPR Cas provide a rapid and targeted means of both knocking out gene expression and knocking in gene modifications However the current workflow required for CRISPR cell line generation relies on several technologies which reduce throughput efficiency and the overall viability of genome edited cells Cell Microsystems has developed a single ...

Abstract Particle tracking PT is a powerful biophysical tool for elucidating molecular interactions transport phenomena and rheological properties in complex biological environments Unfortunately PT remains a niche tool in life and physical sciences with a limited user base in large part due to significant time and technical constraints in extracting accurate time variant positional data fr ...