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The synthetic opioids fentanyl and carfentanil pose an imminent national security threat, given the ease with which they can be obtained, their low lethal doses, and their potential for weaponized use. The purpose of this agreement is to adapt SensoDx’s high-performance miniaturized diagnostics platform based on a programmable bio-nano-chip, with embedded artificial intelligence, to enable U.S. ...

Nerve agents exert their toxic effect by binding to and inactivating enzyme acetylcholinesterase, a key enzymatic regulator of cholinergic neurotransmission. The binding becomes irreversible after a varying amount of time with nerve agents and this aging process limits the treatment window of oxime reactivators. To enhance the current antidote treatment of nerve agent autoinjectors, a pyridostigmi ...

Organophosphorus chemical warfare nerve agents (OP-CWA) are attractive to terrorist groups and rogue states as an inexpensive and accessible technology for chemical warfare. OP-CWA and organophosphate pesticides cause severe neurological symptoms and death by inhibiting the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE); the resulting excess acetylcholine accumulates and overstimulates the human or animal bo ...

This program plans to develop a drug delivery system that provides maximum oxime drug exposure and improve cholinesterase reactivation in the brain and tissues of central nervous system (CNS) of a warfighter after exposure to organophosphate (OP) poisoning. The greatest need for improvement in cholinesterase reactivation is the ability to deliver charged cholinesterase reactivators to the CNS tha ...

This Phase II continuation of ongoing research aims to extend our existing database of human molecular response to infection with biological pathogens. We will compile gene expression changes that are predictive of infection with a larger variety ofbacterial and viral pathogens. The ultimate goal is to perform analyses that may form the basis for a commercial microarray product aimed at early an ...