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Project Summary Abstract Behavioral parent trainingBPTis the gold standard treatment for disruptive behavior in preschool and elementary school age childrenDespite clear empirical evidence that it is effectiveadoption rates by practitioners remains woefully low due in part to a shortage of clinicians trained in BPTIn additioneven when BPT is administeredit is often done incorrectlyThe current stud ...

Project Summary The Specific Aim of this proposal is to test the feasibility of using vagus nerve stimulation VNS for treating asthma related airway constriction that is refractory to current treatments There are approximately million people with asthma in the US About percent of these asthma sufferers experience early and late phase severe asthmatic bronchoconstriction that is refract ...

Project Summary Abstract Induced pluripotent stem cells iPSCs hold great promise in the areas of disease modeling and regenerative medicine and as a result have unique commercial potential There are currently more than ongoing clinical trials in stem cell therapies including the first in human trial using human iPSC derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to treat ...

There is an urgent need for more effective mechanisms that leverage current technologies and best practices to both identify capacity and refer patients to drug treatment facilitiesThe applicant organizationOpenBeds Incis partnering with the non profit MESH Coalitionthree of the largest health care systems offering drug treatment in Indiana and the Indiana Division of Mental Health and AddictionDM ...

ImmuNext has identified and developed a putative lead anti VISTA monoclonal antibody mAb that we aim to bring to the clinic for the treatment of human autoimmune disease VISTA is a member of the highly successful negative checkpoint regulator NCR family of drug targets whose members have demonstrated proven efficacy in inducing long term remissions in human cancers We contend that antibodie ...

Scarab Genomics goal is to commercialize carrier proteins for conjugate vaccine manufacture This proposal focuses on two bacterial carrier proteins that have been approved by the FDA and that are in use in pre clinical and clinical studies Exoprotein A EPA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Protein D PD from non typeable Haemophilus influenzae These proteins are difficult to make by the conve ...

AbstractPlant cell cultures are becoming a commercially valuable source of pharmaceuticalsparticularly those that are too complex for economical chemical synthesisFor example Phyton Biotechin Germanyhas achieved great commercial success by generating taxoids for Paclitaxel production in sterile plant cell bioreactorsHoweverthe efficiency of these systems is limited by the loss in viability of the ...

ABSTRACT Approximately million individuals suffer from traumatic brain injury TBI annually with over expected to die as a result of their injury In these most severe cases patients are typically admitted to the intensive care unit ICU for continuous monitoring and treatment of their injury Standard monitoring includes implantation of an intracranial pressure ICP sensor arterial ...

The increasing incidence of multi drug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and other bacteria represents a public health crisisTwo thirds of hospital associated Saureus infections andof those acquired in the community are now methicillin resistantMRSAMRSA causes rtinfections in the US each yearand it is responsible for half of all US deaths caused by drug resistant bacteriaThis threat to public he ...

ABSTRACT Genital tract infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeaegonorrheadoes not induce a state of specific protective immunity and it can be acquired repeatedlyDespite public health measuresthe disease persists at an unacceptably high frequencythere is no vaccine against itand resistance even to the latest generations of antibiotics continues to emergeRecent findings have revealed that Ngonorrhoeae s ...