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NARRATIVE This STTR Phase I proposal details the rationale and the research plan for the development of a novel liquid embolizing agent composed of the genetically engineered protein polymerSELPsilk elastinlike proteinKto embolize cerebral aneurysmsThe SELP embolic would reduce the risk of aneurysm rupture while minimizing the risk of recanalization after treatment and providing a platform for del ...

We propose to develop a set of multiscale modeling tools for structural reactive materials (SRMs) that explicitly treat microscale, mesoscale and macroscale coupling of mechanical response, thermal properties and chemical reactions. At the macroscale, a combined material point method (MPM, solid)/Eulerian (ICE, fluid) methodology, MPM-ICE, will be employed to investigate the behavior of select int ...

Abstract According to the American Cancer Society in women in the U S will develop breast cancer at some point in their life and of these women will have triple negative breast cancer TNBC an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks the three receptors ER PR HER that current drug treatment targets tamoxifen Herceptin Because of its aggressive nature and lack of effec ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Millions of Americans are suffering from the devastation of cognition decline and other neurological dysfunctions due to one of the neurodegenerative diseases of tauopathy Some of the prominent tauopathies include Alzheimer s disease Pick s disease traumatic brain injury and chronic encephalopathy There is no cure for any of the tauopathies and the actual cause or exogenous r ...

Abstract In the United Statesskin and soft tissue infectionsSSTIsare one of the most common indications for antibiotic treatmentrepresentingof hospital admissions andmillion doctor visits a yearSSTIs range from selflimiting furuncles and cellulitis to life threatening sepsis and tissue necrosisRecent studies suggest more thanof all SSTIs were caused by staphylococcal or streptococcal speciesin par ...

Project Summary Identifying disease causing genetic variants is a complex process that requires experts from multiple fields including bioinformatics IT systems administration and disease pathology to work closely together The size of sequencing data files also adds the requirement for large computational resources As a result performing genomic analyses is an ...

Abstract Gene correction therapy is one of the most important application directions in regenerative medicine Emerging technologies such as CRISPR clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats Cas CRISPR associated protein Zinc Finger Nuclease ZFN and Transcription Activator Like Effector Nuclease TALEN have enabled efficient and precise gene editing in a wide spectrum of ...

Abstract To evaluate the therapeutic applications of stem cells it is essential to develop translational research using several animal species Rabbit is a useful model for biomedical research It has been used to study a number of human diseases Compared to mice rabbits have a more similar embryology and stem cell biology to those of humans an adult body size comparable to human infants that ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Effective communication between patients and healthcare professionals is essential to achieve positive clinical outcomes Patients who are unable to communicate effectively e g patients with limited English proficiency LEP those who are hearing impaired aphasic or have oral tracheal intubation experience extreme frustration panic anxiety sleeplessne ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Mekanistic Therapeutics seeks to design discover and develop anti cancer agents that selectively inhibit multiple oncogenic pathways Its lead agent MTX was discovered in collaboration with the Leopold laboratory at University of Michigan MTX is a novel kinase inhibitor showing early promise for its therapeutic potential against solid cancers refractory to current treatm ...