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Project Summary Galactic Core LLC aims to develop a robust, scalable, and managed service for performing enterprise-grade biomedical data analysis. The service will be based on the popular open-source Galaxy application (​https://galaxyproject.org/​), offering unlimited data storage and compute capabilities with an extremely powerful, flexible, and collaborative environment for analyzing data. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Osteoarthritis (OA) is the leading cause of chronic disability in the United States. A clinical goal in the treatment and prevention of OA is to develop replacement cartilage using tissue engineering (TE) technologies. Although TE cartilage presently lacks the mechanical stability of native cartilage, studies have demonstrated that mechanical stability can be e ...

Project Summary Traumatic brain injuryTBIcauses detrimental behavioral dysfunctions and brain neurodegeneration butunfortunatelythere currently is no effective pharmaceutical TBI treatmentThe underlying PhaseSTTR grant is to develop a new class of TBI drugs that inhibit the protease cathepsin BGenetically deleting the cathepsin B gene in mice results in substantial behavioral and pathology improve ...

ABSTRACT Infection is a serious and potentially fatal complication of surgery to deliver cardiovascular implantable electronic devicesCIEDsi epacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillatorsUntreated device related infection is associated with mortality rates as high asCurrentlyonly one antibiotic impregnated mesh has been FDA approved for placement in surgical incisions to reduce infections ...

ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer is a disease with no effective treatmentIt s low five year survival rateestimated at betweenandranks it the fourth highest of cancer related of death in the U Sdespite being the twelfth most common type of cancerEach year in the U Sthere are nearlynew cases and more thandeaths caused by the diseaseBypancreatic cancer is expected to be the second most common cancer relate ...

SummarySystemic lupus erythematosusSLEor lupus is an autoimmune disease that impacts more thanmillion people worldwideincludingmillion AmericansNearlyof these patients will develop lupus nephritiswhich can cause kidney failureAs a resultits financial burden to individual patient can reach $yearmuch higher than many other diseases because of kidney transplantationAlthough early treatment of lupus n ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 150 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which is an important cause of chronic liver disease. Current therapies are inadequate. Our long-term objective is to bring a new class of anti-HCV drugs to the clinic. We recently discovered and genetically validated a new target within the HCV non-structural protein NS4B, consist ...

Summary Influenza virusa member of the orthomyxovirus familyhas three different types that infect humansABand CTypes A and B produce annual epidemicsand type A influenzawhich resides asymptomatically in birdscan cause pandemic infections in humansIn addition to common flu like symptomse gfeverchillsmalaisemuscle painin susceptible populations influenza can induce potentially fatal secondary compli ...

Therapeutic antibodies have had a profound impact on treatment of many types of cancer and autoimmune diseasesAs a resultfive of the top ten best selling drugs ofwere therapeutic antibodiesMore than seventy therapeutic antibodies have been approvedand over six hundred antibody based products are in clinical developmentHoweverantibodies are extremely expensive to produceand large amounts of antibod ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Becoming a mother is a significant transition in a woman's life. This transition can precipitate major changes in health behaviors, like physical activity. Once a woman has a child she is much less likely to participate in regular, moderate to vigorous physical activity compared to women without children. Thus, new mothers are at risk for future weight gain and ...