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ABSTRACT To combat multidrug resistant bacterial infections novel classes of antibiotics with new mechanisms of action are desperately required Genome mining for novel natural products is quickly replacing traditional approaches to antibiotic discovery Warp Drive Bio has sequenced over actinomycete strain genomes from diverse sources worldwide and our proprietary genomic database conta ...

Globally an estimated of the human population is infected with HSV including andgt of the U S adult population Genital herpes is associated with an increased risk of HIV acquisition and transmission of HSV infection can cause neonatal herpes with high infant mortality HSV infection in the adult population has increased substantially in the past two decades despite the availabil ...

Abstract Natural products have outstanding pharmaceutical pedigree approximately of FDA approved small molecule drugs are derived from plant bacterial or fungal sources To discover new natural products Warp Drive Bio has assembled an enormous proprietary and searchable database of microbial genomes and biosynthetic gene clusters To date our database comprises genomes sequenced ...

Photodynamic Therapy PDT is a promising modality for cancer treatment Oxygen molecules in the metastable singlet delta state O are believed to be the species that destroys cancerous cells during PDT Despite the benefit of targeted PDT that kills tumors selectively with minimum effect on surrounding healthy tissues at the present time it is difficult if not impossible to predict the res ...

ABSTRACT A primary challenge in ovarian cancer is preventing tumor recurrence in patients following a resection debulking procedure year survival rate andlt Intraperitoneal IP administration of chemotherapy most notably paclitaxel can improve patient outcomes and prevent local tumor recurrence the principal deterrent to long term survival However despite these modest improvement ...

Abstract The overall goal of this project is to develop an optimized assay design and development process to permit the rapid implementation of sensitive bead based immuno PCR assays for the detection of the major bacterial and fungal toxins that are produced by common contaminants of medicinal cannabis The assay process will be developed and validated in Phase I focusing on one important small ...

ABSTRACT There is a critical need to discover and develop safe and effective antibiotics for the treatment of multidrug resistant bacterial infections Each year approximately million patients in the US get hospital acquired infections HAIs with a mortality rate of Nearly of the bacteria causing HAIs are resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic Natural products NPs a ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Point of Care Sensor for Host Gene Response to Pathogen Infection Respiratory tract infections rank as one of the leading causes of illness and death in the world The lack of rapid easy to use and accurate point of care POC diagnostics for early detection of pathogen infections is a main reason behind inappropriate use of antibiotics and the emergence of antibiotic res ...

Project Summary Abstract ! Amblyopia is vision loss caused by neglect of a structurally normal eye due to strabismus asymmetric refraction anisometropia or deprivation It is irreversible if not treated by age but half of all patients in the US are undetected and untreated until after it is too late making it the leading cause of preventable vision loss REBIScan has developed retinal bir ...

The goal of this Phase I SBIR proposal is to test the feasibility of an intra tissue antimicrobial surgical wound matrix in the prevention of superficial surgical site skin infections Surgical Site Infections SSI are the second most common type of health care associated infection HAI occurring in to of patients undergoing surgery in the United States and accounting for approximately ...