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This proposal aims to develop highly specific rapid and cost effective immunoassays to detect Zika virus ZIKV infection ZIKV is a single stranded RNA virus in the Flaviviridae family that is transmitted to humans through infected mosquitos blood transfusions and sexual contact As of June around Zika Virus disease cases have been estimated in Brazil alone Recently ZIKV has be ...

Significance Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths with over new diagnoses annually Survival rate of lung cancer patients is correlated with the extent of lymph node metastasis Standard care includes chemotherapy radiation and or surgery Cisplatin is a first line chemotherapy for lung cancer but systemic intravenous IV delivery is confounded by various toxicities rena ...

Targeting the alternative pathway of complement to treat age related macular degeneration Abstract Age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in the developed world in people over and is a priority research area for the National Eye Institute It is a progressive degenerative disease that causes loss of the central vision due to destruction of the part of the re ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT There are infants born preterm each year in the United States alone Preterm infants often necessitate care in the neonatal intensive care unit One of the final milestones to be achieved in order to be discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit is oral feeding Oral feeding can be a challenge for infants born preterm as they do not have the maturity that all ...

ABSTRACT The development of transformative therapeutics including the possibility of a cure though gene therapy is the sole mission of Expression Therapeutics and continues to be a major research and development activity in the overall $ B USD hemophilia market space However progress in the field has been limited by significant hurdles including the size complexity instability immunogenic ...

KDH Research andamp Communication KDHRC submits this Fast Track SBIR proposal to develop and evaluate AVOID Anti Vaping Online Information Dissemination a media based online toolkit to support community based organizations CBO prevention programming against youth e cigarette e cig use Youth e cig use also known as vaping is a rapidly growing public health threat with use among hi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Pneumococcal pneumonia remains the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia in both children under years of age and adults over years of age The standard preventative therapy is the conjugate vaccine Prevnar which consists of an immunogenic carrier protein covalently attached to one of thirteen pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides Although Prevnar has significantly red ...

Project Summary Abstract Despite mandatory use of hand sanitizer on cruise ships there are reported cruise ship onboard norovirus outbreaks in exceeded the number of norovirus outbreaks outbreaks onboard cruise ships in One of the problems of currently available alcohol based hand sanitizer is that alcohol evaporates in less than seconds after each application to a surface ...

Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer CRPC PCa accounts for of PCa deaths and is associated with skeletal metastases CRPC affects patients differently making this disease difficult for physicians to provide standardized treatments with similar outcomes Docetaxel can prolong the overall survival in patients with metastatic CRPC but current therapies do not provide a cure Doce ...

Overmillion women suffer from urinary tract infectionsUTIannually in the U Sandof these patients will suffer from recurrent infectionsincluding approximatelypatientsmostly womenwho will suffer from highly recurrentgreater thanepisodes per yearUTIAntimicrobial treatment of UTIs has resulted in increasing antimicrobial resistance among uropathogenic EcoliUPECto first line empiric therapiessuch as tr ...