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Abstract For decadesthe treatment of cancer has relied on surgical resectionchemotherapy and or radiotherapyRecentlya number of immune based therapies have provided promising new approaches for cancer treatmentThe two most potent immunotherapies are monoclonal antibodymABbased bi specific proteinseg Bispecific T cell engagersBiTEand engineered Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cellsCAR TBoth act by indu ...

PreeclampsiaPEis a pregnancy specific disorder characterized by hypertension and commonly by the appearance of urinary proteinThis disorder occurs inof pregnancies worldwide and is the second leading cause of maternal fetal morbidity and mortality worldwideIn low resource settingsPE accounts for up toof maternal deathsThe etiology of this disease is poorly understoodThis confounds therapeutic inte ...

The number of people with diabetes worldwide is predicted to increase frommillion intomillion inThe health care costs of treating the disease account forof the global health expenditure and continue to be a huge economic burdenIDF World AtlasTypediabetes mellitusT DMconstitutesof the disease burdenIt is an autoimmune diseasethought to be triggered by genetic or environmental factors in early child ...

Neurodevelopmental diseasesNDDsAutism Spectrum DisorderASDIntellectual DisabilitiesBipolar disordersand Schizophreniaetcare prevalent and due to errors in neurodifferentiation and neurocircuitryWhile NDDsin many casesare due to inherited mutationsevidence is mounting that prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants also cause NDDs via disruption of epigeneticse gmodifications of histoneshistone t ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Assessment of loss of visual function outside the foveal area is an essential component of the management of numerous conditionsincluding glaucomaretinal and neurological disordersDespite the significant progress achieved with the development of standard automated perimetrySAPmany decades agoassessment of visual field loss with SAP still has significant drawbacksSAP testing is limi ...

PROJECT SUMMARYTraumatic Brain InjuryTBIis one of the most significant Public Health trauma diseases of our timeDiagnoses of various TBI forms rely on patient self reportingestablished clinical rating scalesand multimodality imaging to an extentTBI elicits complexheterogeneous pathological eventsincluding mechanical injuryhemorrhageand progressive secondary processes such as central and peripheral ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal aims to develop a novel caveolae targeting antibody for rapid clinical translationIts long term objective is to develop the caveolae pumping systeman active transendothelial transport pathwayto provide an effective solution to the delivery and toxicity problem of systemically administered chemotoxinsWork will be based on the current proprietary mouse monoclonal antibo ...

New pharmacological treatments for epilepsy will be discovered through the development of new screening platforms that are rapidreliableand can identify novel disease modifying therapiesor anti epileptogenic treatmentsXona MicrofluidicLLCXonais in a unique position to provide such screening tools and services for epilepsy researchXona focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms for neuron ...

Project SummaryNuclear magnetic resonanceNMRis amongst the most powerful analytical techniques ever inventedas recognized byNobel Prizes for methods development aloneNonethelessNMR is notoriously plagued by poor sensitivity and spatial resolutionState of the art NMR spectrometers typically feature detection thresholds ofnanograms forL sample volumesThis places NMR sensitivity many orders of magnit ...

Sonomyographic Control of Fiber Optically Sensorized Prosthetic Fingers for Graded Force Actuation Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems CorporationIFOSCalle del MundoSanta ClaraCAwww ifos com PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACTMAXIMUMLINESIn this Phase I SBIR applicationIFOS and George Mason UniversityGMUpropose an innovative control system leveraging on two emerging technologiesultrasonic imaging based readout o ...