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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cepheid Inc and the New Jersey Medical School have developed an assay system that integrates sample processing and real-time PCR diagnosis into a single, hands free process. During the successful completion of a phase I STTR application we demonstrated that this system simultaneously detect the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and diagnose rifampin r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Breast cancer remains one of the most insidious and difficult to treat human malignancies, affecting thousands of individuals each year. Our proposed studies are aimed at developing a novel tumor immunotherapy by using cryptic peptides of Her-2 protein and modified Her-2 peptides, both of which break immune tolerance to ?self? tumor antigens expressed on breast ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We intend to develop an improved microfluidic device that allows crystallization experiments to be interrogated directly with X-ray radiation without requiring crystals to be removed from the well. This will allow experimenters to assess the outcome of crystallization experiments on the basis of diffraction data rather than arbitrary optical judgments. Identifi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Phase I funding for this project supported the successful development of the backbone for a new generation of retroviral gene therapy vectors that contain safety and efficacy features designed to overcome the problems that have been found with retroviral vectors used in current clinical trials. The model disease targeted is the well-studied genetic disease Aden ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to develop therapeutic antivirals to treat life-threatening flavivirus infections. Enfuvirtide, a clinically successful peptide HIV fusion inhibitor, is the prototype for a new class of antivirals that inhibit viral envelope protein structural rearrangements essential for viral entry into host cells. In preliminary experiment ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase II project will complete the development and study of a computer-based product intended primarily for teaching children with intellectual disabilities. The product, "SymbolTeacher," addresses a pivotal skill - symbolic matching to sample - which is a target of many current programs for teaching this population. In a symbolic matching task, students a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease, causing joint pain and dysfunction. OA is also associated with substantial co-morbidity and reduces life expectancy. Pharmacologic therapy is limited to symptom modification and disease-modifying therapies are currently not available. Furthermore, even symptom-modifying therapies are limited in efficacy a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Influenza A (fluA) infection causes annual substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly for infants, the elderly, and the immuncompromised. FluA mainly replicates in the respiratory tract, with virulent strains also disseminating to other tissues, such as the central nervous system. A growing concern is the recent spread of virulent avian influen ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Development of drugs based on the MC2R antagonists will directly benefit children with CAH and Cushing's diseases, and will help us to understand MC2R's role in metabolic pathways. The long term goal of this project is to discover small molecule inhibitors of MC2 receptor and develop drug to treat several metabolic diseases including CAH and Cushing's diseases ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed research is to scale up the production and manufacture of high-value ribonucleoside triphosphates containing stable isotope labels. The use for these products is in biomolecular studies of RNA structure using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The market for these products is structural biology groups in academic and industr ...