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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 ...

Triple negative breast cancerTNBCis an orphan disease that attacksUS women every yearTNBC cells lack human estrogen receptorprogesterone receptorand epidermal growth factor receptorHerthe targets of existing medicinesTNBC recurs after standard of care chemotherapy and radiationkilling its victims withinyearsNew promising therapies such as poly ADP ribosepolymerasePARPinhibitors only benefit a smal ...

Project Summary AbstractThe objective of this proposal is to perform proof of concept experiments for a new thin walledsteerable sheath that can pass through a standard colonoscope port and dexterously maneuver surgical instruments at its tipClinical significance comes from the fact that overpatients per year in the USA have unnecessaryinvasive surgery to remove a section of their colonClinical li ...

Our overarching goal is to develop a monoclonal antibody based product for the prevention of seasonal influenza in high risk patientsIt is estimated there aredeaths annually related to seasonal influenza worldwideIn the United Statestheinfluenza season was classified a high severity season withdeathsandhospitalizations attributed to influenzaserving as a reminder of the continued severity of influ ...

PROJECT SUMMARYAn estimatedbillion antibiotic prescriptions were filled in the US fromDespite a national antibiotic education campaignapproximatelyof antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessaryAs a result of the over prescription of antibioticsthere is a current and pressing public health need for improved antibiotic stewardshipCompounding this problem are new modalities of healthcare like telemedici ...

ABSTRACTPerinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathyHIEaffectstoinfants per everybornMortality from HIE can be up toand approximatelyof survivors suffer significant longterm disability including cerebral palsyepilepsyand developmental disordersDamage during the acute phase of HIE is caused by a deficit in oxygen and glucose in the brainHoweverincreasing evidence indicates that secondary and tertiary ...

Seventeen million people each year suffer from an ischemic stroke and millions are left dead and disabledTreatment with recombinant tissue plasminogen activatorr tPAis only modestly effective at reducing disability and it is associated with brain hemorrhage in up toof patients when serial imaging studies are performedBrain hemorrhage causes death and disability andis the major cause of early morta ...

The goal of this STTR is to provide a preclinically validated monoclonal antibody or antibody combination for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virusRSVin high risk patients including infants and the elderlyWorldwideof children are infected with RSV before the age ofresulting in an estimatedmillion lower respiratory tract infectionsIn the United States adults overhavemillion RSV infections c ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Autoimmune diseases are thought to arise from abnormalities in innate or adaptive immune responses and most likely have both genetic and environmental components. Diagnosis of autoimmune disease is often difficult, as t he symptoms can be relatively nonspecific. Furthermore, no available blood test can accurately exclude the possibility of an autoimmune disease ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Without blood, tissue dies. The goal of this project is to develop very small sensors - looking something like this, -- that can be placed flat on the wall of a blood vessel and measure its blood flow. This new device i s called a patch-sensor, and this STTR Phase I is to establish its proof-of-concept by making one and demonstrating that it works in a living a ...