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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite two decades of persistent research on prophylactic and therapeutic immunization against HIV, an effective vaccine-based solution to the HIV pandemic has remained elusive. However, the last few years have provided important insights into the type of immune response that would be required for an effective HIV vaccine. For instance, in studies of natural H ...

In order to maintain our nation’s technological superiority on air, sea and land, we must respond quicker to emerging threats and reduce the cost of major sensing platforms. Every DoD platform developed nowadays contains at least one sensor, whether it be RF, EO/IR, or acoustic. In fact, in a lot of recent developments, the platform is built around the sensor and exists only to support the senso ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human apyrase represents a highly promising therapy for acute ischemic stroke which is a leading cause of death and disability with almost no effective therapy for most patients. Using a protein informatics approach, we have successfully engineered a human apyrase which exhibits significantly higher enzymatic activity and platelet inhibition than the wild-type ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human apyrase represents a highly promising therapy for acute ischemic stroke which is a leading cause of death and disability with almost no effective therapy for most patients. This enzyme strongly inhibits platelet activation and aggregation with modest bleeding risk. We will validate hypothesis that in thromboembolic model of stroke in rats, combination tre ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Every year in the United States, gt1.25 million people suffer from burns, 6.5 million have chronic skin ulcers caused by pressure, venous stasis or diabetes mellitus and 0.25 million have keloids sufficiently severe to require surgery. Burn treatment costs 1.8 billion per year in the US. The treatment of persons with chronic skin ulcers costs 13 billion per y ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Panic attacks (PA) impact about 23% of adults in community samples. Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PDA) tends to be a chronic condition with a lifetime prevalence of 4.7%. When untreated, panic disorder (PD) often leads to debilitating problems, with severe financial and interpersonal costs. Panic Control Treatment (PCT) is an efficacious treatment ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dental caries (tooth decay) is one of the most prevalent and costly infectious diseases in the United States. The oral cavity harbors a complex microbial community consisting of over 600 different non-harmful/commensal microbial species together with a limited number of pathogenic bacteria, including the major etiological agent of dental caries, Streptococcus ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prostate cancer is the third most common form of cancer in the US with an estimated 186,320 new cases in 2008 and 28,660 associated deaths. There are no curative treatments for metastatic prostate cancer. The annual cost of treating prostate cancer in the US is approximately 8 billion dollars. The end points of this proposal are to generate a new drug candidate ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop a rapid and accurate immunodiagnostic test for detection of soil- transmitted helminths (STHs) that can be used without laboratory infrastructure. Human STH infections from whipworm (Trichuris), roundworm (Ascaris), and hookworms (Necator and Ancylostoma) create a substantial burden to worldwide public h ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a highly simplified and improved method of detecting RNA for use in clinical tests and for scientific research by enabling the RT-PCR amplification of nucleic acids directly in whole blood, serum, plasma, and cell lysates. We propose a dual approach. We will work with two of our blood inhibition Taq mutants combined with a viral reverse tr ...