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Project Summary/Abstract: As stated in the Notice of Special Interest announcement, there is a need to populate the recently established MPS database with existing data generated by organ-on-a-chip systems. Having a centralized, public database with data from all available MPS systems will accelerate development and acceptance of the technology ultimately bringing better therapies to patients fast ...

Aging Frailty is a biologically driven geriatric syndrome of multisystem physiological decline that is distinct from normal aging and disproportionately increases vulnerability to adverse clinical outcomes. Frailty has an overall prevalence of 10% of those 65 years and older, and there is growing awareness in the geriatric community to diagnose and treat this condition, as it is not an inevitable ...

Project Summary/Abstract PTI-125 is a novel small molecule Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapeutic candidate with a novel target and mechanism of action. PTI-125 binds and reverses an altered conformation of the scaffolding protein filamin A (FLNA) to prevent Aβ42’s tight binding to and toxic signaling via the α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) as well as Aβ42’s aberrant activati ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of this proposal is to develop and commercialize a safe and more effective therapy for the treatment of Crohn's Disease, an inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn's Disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects some 500,000 patients in the US. Selexys Pharmaceuticals is developing a fully human anti-PSGL- ...

Project SummaryThe goal of this proposal, at the end of the Phase II effort, is to have a service available to academia and industry to screen drugs for Alzheimer’s to predict patient outcomes and determine how potential therapeutics are delivered to the CNS. There are currently few companies able to offer multi-organ evaluation with a recirculating medium utilizing functional readouts, and none ...

Salmonella Paratyphi ASParatyphi Ais a major cause of life threatening enteric feverThere is no vaccine available against this pathogenIn the SBIR phase I studieswe have successfully demonstrated the technical feasibility of a novel nanoparticle conjugate vaccine candidate for SParatyphi AIt is based on O polysaccharideOPSantigen conjugated to a novel and highly advantageous nanoparticle protein c ...

Project Summary Occidiofungins (A-D) are cyclic nonribosomally synthesized antifungal peptides with submicromolar fungicidal activity against a broad spectrum of fungi. Optimization of the production and isolation of occidiofungins from liquid cultures has been performed. The production and isolation of predominantly one analog, called occidiofungin B (OCF001), supports its commercial development ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the past years, we have shown that human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBC, U-CORD- CELL ) provide cognitive recovery in animal models of neurodegenerative disease. Infusion of HUCBC resulted in reduced infarct volume as well as in rescue of behavioral benefits in an animal model of stroke. We further showed that HUCBC infusion proved to be beneficial in ani ...

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 ...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal form of adult brain cancers with a median survival of andlt;15 months despite aggressive standard chemoradiation. GBM are formed by GBM stem-like cells (GSCs) - a major contributor to tumor recurrence and a natural focus for therapeutic development. There are two main reasons responsible for treatment failure: 1) high intra- and inter-tumor cellular and molecu ...