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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In nearly million new cancer cases are estimated to occur in the US where nearly two thirds will have treatment by radiation therapy In current clinical practice organ contour delineation on medical images is still performed with low levels of automation due to lack of highly automated commercial contouring software This deteriorates therapy plann ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Infectious bone disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide Successful treatment often requires surgical intervention with longer term antibiotic therapy Bacterial biofilm pathogens are associated with most osseous infections and represent a major target of therapy The biofilm pathogens associated with chronic bone infections bind to and co ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cognition Therapeutics Inc andapos s mission is to develop effective therapeutics for Alzheimerandapos s disease Recent scientific discoveries have identified oligomers of the brain protein Abeta as toxic culprits in the disease process Cognition has discovered therapeutic molecules that displace Abeta oligomers from neurons and block the downstream pathol ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neuropathic pain is a serious health problem that affects millions of people worldwide and occurs in as much as of the general population The management of neuropathic pain in patients is complex with an estimated of individuals refractory to existing analgesic therapies The aging population the diabetes epidemic and the significant cohorts of can ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Due to the rapid advances in science technology engineering and mathematics STEM the United States has been at the forefront of innovation and technology development in the science health and biomedical fields However these continuing advances are in jeopardy as there is a growing national shortage of trained STEM workers While the need for a STEM li ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gfree Bio proposes to collaborate with Professor Bajaj and his group at the University of Texas to develop a general and much more theoretically rigorous algorithm for fitting the ligand binding region of experimental protein ligand cocrystal structures Current methods and practices often lead to very poor geometries for the bound ligand This is a significant ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Optical microscopy is the most commonly used imaging technique in life and material sciences however the spatial resolution of any standard microscope is fundamentally limited by the diffraction of light waves which for visible light restricts spatial resolution to nm Surpassing the diffraction limit significantly impacts several disciplines such as me ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Phase I STTR in response to RFA HD andquot Non or Minimally Invasive Methods to Measure Biochemical Substances during Neonatal and Perinatal Patient Care and Researchandquot develops and tests Baby Gentle Stick BGS a handheld device to decrease the distress of repeat blood sampling in neonates BGS combines delivery of vibration induced ane ...