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Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

Abstract Pancreatic cancers are devastating diseases with five year survival rate less than Currently there is no effective treatment for advanced disease One major barrier to efficacy of anti tumor therapeutics is the dense desmoplastic stromal response Evidence suggests that cancer associated pancreatic stellate cells CAPaSC produce the stromal collagen The ECM laid down by CAPaSC is c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY We will develop and commercialize to the research community a new class of glycan specific binding reagents that incorporate the recognition function of variable lymphocyte receptors VLRs the antigen receptors of the adaptive immune system of jawless vertebrates lamprey and hagfish Such reagents are essential to detecting localizing quantifying and establishing biological ...

Blood biopsy test for pan cancer mutations with error checking probes Confidential PI Shafer David A PhD PROJECT SUMMARY GeneTAG Technology www genetagtech com has developed a series of molecular diagnostic assays for cancer and infectious diseases based on DNA amplification and proprietary detection methods Our primary system internal DDS iDDS probes comprises two interacting component ...

Inhibikase Therapeutics is a clinical stage bio pharmaceutical company that has developed a novel prodrug formulation for the popular anticancer agent Gleevec Gleevec treatment is commonly accompanied by significant burdensome gastrointestinal side effects that erode therapy success due to poor patient compliance Inhibikaseandapos s prodrug of Gleevec completely blunts these gastrointestina ...

Project Summary More than drugs have failed in stroke clinical trials an unprecedented rate thought to be attributed to two major factors most therapeutics focus on a single secondary injury mechanism and testing in rodent models alone may not be adequate for predicting which treatment is going to be successful We will combine two unique enabling technologies to address these caveats ...

Enzalutamide resistance is a major obstacle in the treatment of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer mCRPC Recently we developed a small molecule lead compound GH and demonstrated its potent activity against bone metastatic prostate cancer cells In this Phase I STTR application we hypothesize that GH is a novel lead compound with nanomolar potency against enzalutamide resist ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This application for a Phase I SBIR award represents a collaboration between Clinitech LLC and McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School to develop a wearable biosensor for detecting alcohol in the interstitial fluid of humans who have consumed alcohol Excessive use of alcohol accounts for much of the public health burden related to alcohol use disorders including fetal ...

PROJECT SUMMARY To advance microbiome brain studies the general goals of this collaborative proposal are to provide services to research community by engineering probiotics e g E coli Nissle EcN Bifidobacteria longum Lactobacillus plantarum to biosynthesize various naturally occurring chemicals as prebiotic probiotic conjugates which will be marketed as important laboratory agents ...

Project Summary OC Go Facilitating fidelity and dissemination of evidence based treatment for childhood OCD via an interactive crowd sourced patient provider tool The long term objective of this project is to leverage mobile technologies and crowdsourcing to create a new paradigm of evidence based treatment delivery and dissemination as current methods are often insufficient The project seeks ...