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SUMMARY Although solid tumors oftentimes arise from the uninhibited growth of a single aberrant cellthe population of cells within a tumor are genetically and molecularly heterogenousThis makes it very difficult to evaluate a therapy s efficacy when using bulk population measurementsFurthermorerecent research has implicated microRNAsmiRNAsas drivers of progression and malignancy in many tumor type ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases in the U.S., affecting up to 16% of the population and substantially diminishing the quality of life and productivity of patients. In four years, the annual U.S. health care expenditure to treat patients with CRS dramatically increased from $9B to $64B (5% of the health care budget), with a correspondin ...

Summary Enhanced Recovery of Pharmaceutical Solvent driven by EPA InitiativeThe United States Environmental Protection AgencyEPAis establishing new safeguards for hazardous secondary materials with objectives to promote the economicenvironmentaland public health benefits of recycling wasteswith an emphasis on several industrial sectorsincluding the pharmaceutical industryOn averagepharmaceutical m ...

In this Phase I application IsoPlexis proposes to deliver a novel method for targeted profiling of both the transcriptome and secretome from an array ofsingle central and peripheral immune cellsSpecificallywe will deliver a single cellmRNA and secreted protein capture assay with proven sensitivity for detecting the most important predictive biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseasesThere is growing ...

Although signal transduction inhibitors occasionally offer clinical benefit for cancer patientssignal flux emanating from oncogenes is often distributed through multiple pathwayspotentially underlying the resistance which causes failure of most such inhibitorsMeasuring signal flux through multiple pathwaysin response to signal transduction inhibitorsmay help uncover network interactions that contr ...

AbstractAs consumer demand for fresh produce continues to growso do concerns by the Food and Drug AdministrationFDAabout foodborne illnesses and foodborne disease outbreaksPostharvest wash is a critical control point in fresh produce processing for reducing or eliminating pathogens and other field acquired contaminants that can result in such outbreaksCurrent methods of post harvest washing typica ...

The melanocortinreceptorMC Ris over expressed on uveal and cutaneous melanoma cellsbut notin healthy normal tissuesWe have developed a proprietary ligandMTIthat binds to MC R inmelanoma cells with high affinity and specificityThrough our SBIR Phase I contractwedemonstrated that MC R targetedAc DOTA MTIlacks of overt toxicity at single doses thatproduce significant efficacy against uveal and cutane ...

AbstractLife sciences research and other critical bioanalytical applications would strongly benefit from faster and higher resolution high performance liquid chromatographicHPLCseparations of larger molecules including proteinspeptidesglycopeptidesand glycansProteins therapeutics are complex moleculessusceptible to intended or unintended alterations of composition and conformationMany therapeutic ...

ABSTRACT Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematopoietic cancer and while survival rates have slowly increase in the last 10 years, the five-year survival is just over 50%. The high number of patients that become refractory to current therapies is the core reason for the low long-term survival. Therefore, there is a crucial need to develop unique drugs that are active in refractory a ...

Abstract The objective of this SBIR Phase I proposal is to test the feasibility for development of an automated platform that can perform the followingIdentify botanical components of dietary supplements throughout the supply chain by use of chemicalanalysis and integrated pattern recognition softwareDetect the presence of adulteration by use of HPLCand UHPLCanalysis of bioactive compounds andby u ...