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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): World-wide public health surveys point to an increased global health burden for serious psychiatric disorders, particularly depression. Indeed, by 2020 it is expected that depression may be the second most serious medical condition with respect to global disease burden. It is clear that more effective pharmacotherapies are needed in treating depressive illn ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Novel drugs that improve overall survival with decreased morbidity are critical in the war on cancer. Acenta Discovery Inc. has partnered with the Toretsky Lab of the Lombardi Cancer Center to create and preclinically evaluate novel inhibitors of the protein Akt. An Akt inhibitor would have tremendous value in improving the lives of patients with many types ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An important role for apoptosis has been established in various pathological processes, particularly in nervous tissues. Apoptosis essentially contributes to neuronal loss during normal development, after acute neuronal injury, and in chronic degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): World-wide public health surveys point to an increasing global health burden resulting from serious brain disorders, particularly mood-related disorders such as depression. The economic burden of depression alone is immense. Of the $83.1 billion spent in 2000 on the treatment of depression and related expenses, $26.1 billion (31 percent) were direct medical cos ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to culture human embryonic stem cells generated a great deal of excitement about their vast potential for treating a variety of human diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, neurological, retinal and skin disorders to name a few. Unlike adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells have indefinite growth potential and the potential to develop into any t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase 1 STTR project will determine the feasibility of using web services, based on standard SOAP/XML (HL-7) protocols, to exchange Emergency Medical Services (EMS) field data with disparate hospital information systems. It will build upon a pre-hospital software package called iRevive, which consists of a network of wireless, handheld computers linked ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Affomix would like to commercialize antibody chips to enable researchers to study the human proteome. Currently, researchers use gene chips as a surrogate means to estimate the concentration of the vast variety of pro teins in cells and tissues. But given the choice, most researchers would prefer to study the proteins directly because of the; i) poor correla ...

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the application): Penicillin-resistant bacteria pose a serious threat to human welfare. This project will generate new products designed to defeat resistant microorganisms. The most prevalent cause of bacterial resistance involves the destruction of the antibiotic with the enzyme B-lactamase. There are more than 255 known B-lactamases, whi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Molecule specific targeting and improving image contrast have been recognized as important research areas in cancer imaging. Goal of cancer diagnosis and prognosis research is to develop new imaging techniques to detect lesions with certainty in early stages so that they can be treated. Developing biomarkers, which will signal the presence and the type of lesio ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A separation method will be tested and evaluated to determine the feasibility of providing no carrier added lutetium-177 (Lu-177) for use in radiotherapeutic applications. An indirect method will be used to produce Lu-177 (neutron capture followed by decay). Separation of the Lu-177 from the target material will enable us to provide carrier-free Lu-177 suita ...