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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This SBIR Phase I proposal is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a novel and effective therapeutic agent for acute radiation injury The threat of nuclear terrorism remains high and there is a possibility of a nuclear power plant leak both of which can cause acute radiation injury at a large scale Currently there are no therapeutic agents ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram positive human pathogen that causes a wide range of infections from skin and soft tissue infections SSTI to life threatening sepsis and pneumonia The pathogenicity of S aureus is dependent on numerous virulence factors including cell surface proteins and polysaccharides as well as secreted toxins An important group of thes ...

DESCRIPTION Based on the prevailing evidence we believe that a highly effective vaccine for HIV prophylaxis must induce long lasting broadly cross reactive antibody responses to envelope that exhibit antiviral activity as well as multi antigen polyfunctional CD and CD T cell responses that produce antiviral chemokines and cytokines and are possibly biased towards an effector memory phenot ...