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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Triple negative breast cancers TNBCs account for of breast cancer deaths and lack targeted therapies Drs Sonenshein Mineva and Romagnoli and their co workers recently identified the non essential cell surface protein ADAM A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease as a pivotal promoter of breast tumor growth and metastasis and validated it as a target o ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The mission of Bioniks is to develop and commercialize accurate low cost movement analysis systems for clinicians ergonomists athletic trainers and other professionals interested in quantifying human movement Our initial focus is on developing computer enhancements for inexpensive D cameras like the Microsoft Kinect These enhancements surpass the accura ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The inability to treat many Gram negative bacterial infections effectively with existing antibiotics is a major medical crisis Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prime example of clinical isolates from critically ill patients are resistant to three or more drugs The overall goal of this project is to address the critical medical need by a novel approach of iden ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ebolaviruses and Marburg virus MARV constitute the family Filoviridae andquot filovirusesandquot that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with human case fatalities of The current epidemic in West Africa unprecedented in terms of geographic scope and size highlights the continued need for development of therapeutics Among the five ebolavirus spe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase STTR research is to quantify genotoxicity in basal cell keratinocytes from organotypic cultures Epiderm in response to commonly used chemical agents The proposed product is a Comet Chip assay that measures DNA damage in basal cells derived from a reconstructed human epidermis Technical questions that will be addressed are Ca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Bipolar disorder BD is a complex chronic illness characterized by recurrent often dramatic mood changes Self management of BD is an important component of treatment but is likewise complex and can be fraught with difficulties including misunderstanding of the condition and a lack of self awareness Combined with the nationwide shortage of mental healthcare ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques and particularly multiphoton fluorescence microscopy have become popular tools for visualizing the three dimensional cellular architecture residing hundreds of microns and up to one millimeter deep in living organisms This is particularly valuable in neurobiology where multiphoton techniques have become widely used fo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the most complex forms of congenital heart disease hypoplastic left heart syndrome HLHS affects an average of in every newborns with a mortality rate of up to percent during the first year of life The overall goal f our research is to develop safe and effective ways to improve short term and long term survival rates in babies born with HL ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The title of this project is andquot Treating Collagen induced Arthritis with Fc Receptor Activating Nanoparticlesandquot We and others have identified and characterized a population of macrophages with potent immunorergulatory activity The goal of the present proposal is to induce the production of regulatory macrophages R M in mice and determine wheth ...