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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT In response to National Institute on Aging's (NIA) strategic plan and PAS-19-317, we propose novel therapeuticsto treat Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRDs). We have developed novel combinations of three natural product compounds, which modulate complementary pathways in multiple types of CNS cells (i.e., neurons, microglia) associated with AD pathology. These c ...

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 � ...

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/Abstract Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability and accounts for 4.6 million disabled people in the United States. Stroke-related costs total over $46 billion in the United States each year.1 Of the nearly 800,000 Americans who have a stroke per year, 87% experience ischemic stroke1, of which 49%-86% are attributed to either large vessel occlusions (LVO) or med ...

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 ...

The proposed phase-I STTR research is an interdisciplinary effort to develop more effective clinical management of Status Epilepticus (SE) in collaboration with one of the leading neurological institutes in the world, the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. SE is a life-threatening neurological emergency that can occur without warning and is characterized by recurrent seizures witho ...

Project Summary This STTR proposal will focus on developing and testing a novel, first-on-the-market implantable biosensor for in vivo, real-time sensing of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (GLU) for animal studies. GABA and GLU are neurotransmitters (NTs) that are essential for information processing and plasticity, memory, and other functions. GLU is the major excitatory NT and GABA ...

Project Summary/Abstract Bone marrow aspirates are critical to the diagnosis, staging, and monitoring of hematologic conditions and cancers (e.g., leukemia, aplastic anemia, sickle cell disease, and metastasis of solid tumors), but 8-50% of aspirations are unsuccessful due to operator technique, hemodilution, or underlying pathology. Because this process is manual and error-prone, there is an oppo ...