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SUMMARY Sepsis is a clinical syndrome that complicates severe infectionSepsis remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patientsThere are no specific FDA approved medicines for the treatment of sepsisCurrent concepts of the pathophysiology of sepsis suggest that organ failure and mortality in sepsis are caused by inappropriate regulation of the immune systemThis manife ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuropathic pain is a common complication of cancer, diabetes mellitus, viral infections, and other causes. Although physicians currently employ a variety of treatments to manage moderate to severe neuropathic pain, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, tricyclic antidepressants, anti- seizure medications, serotonin-norepinephrine reupta ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT TitleAccelerating Site specific Characterization of Protein Therapeutics with Novel Machine Learning Methods The project seeks to improve reliability and speed up the development of life saving and life enhancingprecisionprotein therapeutics and magnify the positive impact of biomedical research and education worldwideleading to a quantum leap in our understanding of the mo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Tuberculosis TB disease which results from infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mtb is a leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in children andlt years old worldwide In TB endemic regions in which the vast majority of the worldandapos s annual million adult cases of TB disease reside children andlt years old account for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed effort aims to dramatically enhance the realism of radiation safety training for Emergency Responders, both First Responders, as well as Skilled Support Personnel. The goal is to develop andevaluate realistic dosimetry simulation or Dosimulation tools. These Realistic, Accurate Dosimulation (RAD) tools will be the centerpiece for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cardiovascular disease is a critical health issue in the US and Western countries. The leading cause of death is heart failure (HF). Almost 5.5 million patients are diagnosed with congestive HF in the U.S and the majorcause of HF is myocardial ischemic disease. Therefore, improvement of therapy for post myocardial infarction (post-MI) HF is extremely important, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to develop a drug that will be therapeutic for obesity and diabetes and improve exercise tolerance. Obesity, diabetes and exercise are inextricably linked such that an agent that improves exercise tolerance or prevents obesity or the development of diabetes will likely have a therapeutic role in all three conditions. Obesity is a gl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Results of recent Free Electron Laser (FEL) studies have shown that under certain conditions pulsed 6-7 5m radiation can affect scission of soft tissues with unprecedented precision and minimal damage to tissues immediately adjacent to the scission sites. Subsequent clinical work has successfully employed this FEL output in several pilot human neurosurgeries. U ...

Good methods to interrogateand ideally perturbneural systems at the network level have been elusive until recentlyThe advent of biochemical breakthroughsnamely neuronally targeted genetically encoded calcium reporterssuch as GCaMPand light activated channelssuch as channelrhodopsinhave enabledall opticalelectrophysiology where experiments can be conducted that involve simultaneousor closely sequen ...

Project Summary This project proposes further development of a computational discovery platform shown to quantifiably identify and prioritize both targets and compounds for therapeutic intervention, which will accelerate the development of newer, more effective drugs with fewer side-effects. This platform is based on a novel fusion of two state of the art computational approaches (phenolog mapping ...