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Summary In recent years opioid use disorder OUD and deaths due to opiate overdose e g with heroin fentanyl oxycodone in suburban and rural non minority groups has created an urgency for approaches to stem this epidemic but the rise in OUD and opiate overdose deaths has occurred in inner cities at similar rates Heroin misuse and addiction are persistent problems in African American commu ...

As their first application for veterinary health the two PI s have already remarkably employed their novel patented superagonist and neoglycosylation technology to develop the first recombinant much more potent and long acting bovine FSH antagonists for improved cattle reproduction and a potential $ Million annual market This work was supported by a previous phase SBIR from FDA CVM whic ...

Project Summary Myologica is a small business focused on developing therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases Started in collaboration with the University of Maryland Myologica maintains a vigorous in house pre clinical discovery program in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy DMD while providing consultation and specialized neuromuscular function testing for non profit and corporate clients The object ...

Abstract Diabetic Macular Edema DME is a vision threatening stage in Diabetic Retinopathy DR that can result in legal blindness The biochemical mechanisms that drive DME progression are not well understood and treatments address only portions of the disease pathology The available treatment options vary widely from injectable anti VEGF to injectable steroids to laser treatments and carry a ...

Abstract Immune checkpoint inhibitors have recently emerged as a revolution in cancer care providing the potential for durable response and improved survival for numerous cancer patients across multiple cancer types However only of patients who are treated with checkpoint inhibitors have responded in most cancer types necessitating biomarker assays that can reliably and accurately ident ...

ABSTRACT Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma HNSCC is the world s th leading cause of cancer accounting for of cancer mortality For many other cancers molecular characterization has led to sub classification of disease based on the status of oncogenic drivers in signal transduction pathways leading to the development of molecularly targeted agents MTAs targeting specific dysregulate ...

AbstractIn this SBIR application miRecule proposes to develop a microRNA based therapeutic mimic of miRpmiRecule candidate MCfor the treatment of multi drug resistantMDRcancersHead and Neck Squamous Cell CarcinomaHNSCCis theth most common form of cancerGreater than half of patients present with late stage III or IV diseasewith an averageyear survival rate ofHNSCC tumors have high levels of genetic ...

Project Summary Molecular medicine holds promise for advancing medical diagnosis and treatment if biomarkers can be accurately assessed in tissues for example in tumors The long term objective of the project is to bring to market new tools for better biopsy tissue acquisition processing and storing A first new biopsy device aims to acquire multiple samples into a cartridge and to stabilize the ...

The broader impact commercial potential of PathoVax s STTR phase I proposal is to improve outcomes of cancer immuno therapy utilizing a vaccine formulation combining an immunogenic chimeric virus like particle cVLP vaccine with FDA approved immune check point inhibitors PathoVax proposes to develop this technology for treatment of human papillomavirus HPV associated cancers However cancer ...

Abstract Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized today s treatments for many forms of cancers In particular blocking antibodies to immune checkpoint proteins such as programmed cell death PD and its ligand programmed cell death ligand PD L effectively unleash immune cell destruction of cancerous cells However the high cost of these antibody based immunotherapies their intensive ...