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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 Hepatocellular carcinoma HCC is the most prevalent cancer in human population and will lead to over deaths in the United States this year alone However the molecular mechanisms driving hepatocellular carcinoma HCC growth and metastasis remain elusive and there is a huge unmet medical need to find new therapeutic targets We performed an unbiased ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase I STTR research is to develop and test osteoinductive lumbar spinal fusion implant prototypes made using materials technology developments discovered by the PI at the University of Kansas In preliminary work lower impedance piezoelectric composite materials that generate power for direct current DC electrical stimulation applica ...

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 Aberrant neuronal connectivity is associated with a number of neuropathological and neuropsychiatric diseases disorders Inefficient developmental connectivity misdirected connectivity or disrupted and degenerated connectivity can account for losses of normal neuronal communication and subsequent losses of mental or physical health Altered expression of axon ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The pursuit of novel therapies informed by the astounding advances in biomedical science of the past half century has been fruitful for many disorders However inherited muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy remain stubbornly resistant to sophisticated molecular approaches to therapy A few therapies are finally edging towards approval but it has become ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Current treatment options for a number of skin diseases generally aim for symptomatic relief and fail to address underlying pathophysiological changes leading to skin disease In the case of genetic mutations that cause loss of function mutations supplementation of the missing protein is a viable approach to treatment However delivery of functional protein to the target keratino ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is a major public health problem and a leading cause of mortality claiming more than half million lives every year in the US While major progresses have been made in developing targeted anticancer therapeutics many cancers such as lung cancers have no effective treatments Unfortunately many ideal oncogenic targets including transcription factors for ...

After a breast conserving therapy histology is often performed to check whether the excised tumor specimen is surrounded by a sufficient amount of normal tissue If a positive margin is identified then a second operation will be performed Currently the re operation rate is which raises a need for intraoperative detection of residual cancers The current intraoperative tools for margin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is poised to increase exponentially with the growing aging population worldwide In the United States total annual costs of AD care are projected to increase from $ billion in to over $ trillion in Paucity of disease modifying therapies capable of slowing the disease progression is an acute unmet ...