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ABSTRACT Long-term survival rates for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) currently exceed 90%. However, prolonged ALL chemotherapy, which lasts two to three years on average, is associated with significant fatigue and sleep disturbances in both children and their caregivers. In fact, patients and caregivers often identify excess fatigue and sleep disturbances as the most di ...

Background: Large scale studies have demonstrated that when patients struggle with life challenges that complicate their care (e.g., a lack of social support, competing responsibilities, or financial hardships), health care providers can improve health care outcomes and lower costs if they attempt to identify these “contextual factors” and address them in their care plan – a process termed � ...

ABSTRACT Developing drugs that target the central nervous system (CNS) is hampered by an inability to perform direct in vivo preclinical measurements. Here, we propose to identify an optimal smoking cessation drug candidate by monitoring how our newly synthesized prodrugs alter real-time brain dopamine responses to nicotine. Varenicline (CHANTIX®) is the leading FDA-approved oral medication for s ...

Catheter Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is an imaging technique that was developed in the 1980s to allow physicians to visualize blood vessels. Today, this technology is utilized for minimally-invasive interventions that treat numerous devastating pathologies, including stroke and myocardial infarction, diseases that disproportionally impact underserved minority patient populations.Catheter ...

SUMMARY Covira Surgical, Inc. is developing CS-0003, a first-in-class, orally administered non-antibiotic therapy for preventing infections in patients undergoing gastrointestinal (GI) surgeries. Despite improved surgical procedures, broad use of antibiotics, mandated asepsis measures, and enhanced recovery programs, post-surgical infections remain a clear and present danger to patients. Surgical ...

An estimated one out of eight individuals over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with a prevalence of 1-in-3 for those over age 85. There are approximately 5.8 million people in the USA with AD, with a global projection of over 150 million by 2050. There remains a lack of effective treatment to halt disease progression. Somatostatin receptor-4 (SSTR4) represents an innovative and viabl ...

PROJECT SUMMARY There is an unmet need for a herpes simplex virus (HSV) vaccine. We propose to develop a live-attenuated HSV-2 vaccine based on our R2 technology platform. R2 vaccines show unprecedented safety and efficacy in animal models, and offer antigenicity superior to subunit/mRNA and single-round vaccine designs. R2 vaccines are also the first live-attenuated alphaherpesvirus vaccines that ...

Project Summary/Abstract The Tiny Cargo Company offers a unique, orally administered medical countermeasure for treatment and prevention of the gastrointestinal (GI) side effects of cancer radiation therapy (RT). Our therapeutic is comprised of milk-derived extracellular vesicles (mEVs) loaded with a safe and highly effective radioprotective drug – a formulation that we call Milactatm. RT compli ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures are estimated to rise by over 300% by the year 2030. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is the most significant complication following TJA with healthcare costs exceeding $1.6 billion annually. Treatment of PJI generally requires surgical intervention combined with a prolonged course of antibiotics costing $50,000 per patient. Despite thi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY. In this Phase I STTR project, Light Switch Bio will collaborate with Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Pennsylvania for the early-stage development of IR-Platin, a first-in-class photoactivated chemotherapy for treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the sixth leading cancer worldwide. Most patients with HNSCC present with advanced disease ...