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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The product that will result from this STTR is ABH (2(S)-amino-6-boronohexanoic acid), a potent small molecule inhibitor of the enzyme arginase, for treating vascular complications of diabetes. There are 20.8 million Americans with diabetes. More than 65% of these people will die from heart disease or stroke. Men with diabetes are twice as likely, and women wi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute lung injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are characterized by a rapid and severe respiratory failure, arising after clinical events including major surgery, trauma, multiple transfusions and sepsis. ALI/ARDS have an associated mortality of 40-80% and current pharmacological modalities have been unsuccessful in decreasing mortality. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase 1 STTR application seeks support for research to enhance the commercial viability of a tool to assess the cultural competence of health care organizations. The tool was developed by Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, who is director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Cultural-comp ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is an immediate and urgent clinical need to enhance the monitoring of the delivery and accuracy of targeted drug delivery, the onset and spread of cancers, and the longitudinal monitoring of cancer treatments. Nanotechnology holds the promise to address this problem. A smart particle capable of selective targeting would augment the physician's tools nee ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing evidence indicates that systemic inflammation and the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which becomes the target of overreacting or misguided immune cells that determine BBB failure and immune extravasations into the brain parenchyma, are involved in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases such as meningitis, inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, and multipl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a compelling need to develop therapeutic approaches specifically designed to reduce neurological deficits after stroke. Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBCs) treatment dose-dependently improves functional outcome after stroke. UCBCs are associated with a lower risk of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and UCBCs are younger than adult bone marrow st ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The liver is the site of many metabolic processes, including metabolism of xenobiotics such as pharmaceutical compounds. Drug metabolism is highly species specific and can vary significantly between individuals of the same species. To date no reliable experimental system capable of predicting the human-specific metabolic conversion of candidate small molecules ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Therapeutic stem cell gene transfer relies on long-term gene expression achieved by integration of new DNA into the cellular genome. Current clinical trials featuring oncoretroviruses have encountered a number of roadblocks that include low levels of gene transfer, poor expression, and a recognized preferential insertion near promoter regions that increases the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Resident assistants (RAs) are often the first staff members at a college or university to learn that a student is engaged in alcohol or other drug abuse. This Phase II STTR application seeks support to further develop and test a web-based program called RA Resources (RAR) - Alcohol-Drug Problems. Phase 5, Inc. will conduct this theory-driven research project ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the past years, we have shown that human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBC, U-CORD- CELL ) provide cognitive recovery in animal models of neurodegenerative disease. Infusion of HUCBC resulted in reduced infarct volume as well as in rescue of behavioral benefits in an animal model of stroke. We further showed that HUCBC infusion proved to be beneficial in ani ...