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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This project addresses the need for better methods for deciphering the glycosylation of proteins in clinical samples Glycosylation is an important modifier of protein structure and function and contributes to disease processes But we currently know little about the glycosylation of most proteins The current methods for probing glycans on proteins are not su ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Destruction of lymphatic vessels during the treatment of breast cancer by surgery and/or radiation therapy can lead to the development of secondary lymphedema. The breast-cancer-related lymphedema is associated with debilitating limb swelling, chronic inflammation, tissue fibrosis, and increased susceptibility to infection. It has been estimated that approximat ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming frequent occurrences off the coasts of the United States, particularly in coastal waters of New England, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean. Historically, HABs have beenassociated with fish kills and marine mammal mortalities; however, their effects on human health and economic loss due to HAB contamination of se ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Peripheral nerve injury can lead to anomalous sensations referred to as neuropathic pain. Nerve injury may result from a variety of insults ranging from frank injury to the nerve though sectioning or compression, to chemotherapeutics and autoimmune conditions. Symptoms often include continuous burning pain and abnormal sensory sensations such as allodynia (pain ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) affected ~14,600 new patients in 2013 in the US and caused over 10,000 deaths, primarily in older adults. The current chemotherapy regimen, a combination of cytarabine (AraC) and anthracyclines such as daunorubicin (DNR), has resulted in 5-year survival rates of only 30-40% (less than 10% in patients over 60 years old). The principa ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A flexible, protein-based, ion-mediated retinal implant is proposed for the restoration of vision for patients with retinal degenerative diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa(RP). The implant under development uses the retinal- containing protein, bacteriorhodopsin (BR), to convert light into a pH gradient. This gradi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Site-specific binding of proteins to DNA plays an important role in cell development, cell signaling, the cell cycle, and diseases such as cancer. There are two overarching goals to this proposal: (1) to develop a meansfor the identification of proteins bound to specific DNA sequences, and (2) to develop a better method for the identification of immunoprecipita ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For medical practices, a major challenge is managing the hundreds of telephone calls received daily, many of which are about new or worsening medical symptoms. Particularly difficult are calls from persons with little or no medical training about frail older persons living at home or in assisted living (AL) communities. Incoming calls are typically answered by ...

Project Description The purpose of this project is to develop a new radiotherapy treatment modality that will substantially enhance the treatment of wet AMD with minimal toxicity to healthy tissue, leading to major improvement in visual acuity, decreaseduse of intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF agents, lower cost of treatment, and a substantially improved quality of life for patients. The new m ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): During this STTR program, Electronic BioSciences (EBS) proposes to develop a nanopore based system around our University of Utah collaborators newly developed technology that will be capable of identifying and quantifying sequence specific RNA modifications. A system capable of quantitative, low cost, high throughput, RNA modification characterization has the c ...