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Complicated urinary tract infections are severe or life-threatening infections that extend beyond a simple bladder infection and occur most frequently in hospitalized patients. There are over 2.8 million cases of complicated urinary tract infections in the U.S. each year, with 20% of cases progressing to urosepsis, leading to nearly 150,000 deaths each year. Effective management of complicated uri ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG) are rare and deadly pediatric brain tumors. They are extremely aggressive tumors that are found in the pons, which controls many of the body's most vital functions such as breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate. There is no currently effective means of treatment for DIPG, and the median survival is 7-11 months after diagnosis. Thus, there ...

Myocardial infarction followed by left ventricular remodeling is the leading cause of heart failure (HF). Current therapies are inadequate to modulate adverse remodeling and prevent subsequent cardiac failures. As such there is a critical unmet need to identify new therapies. There is strong evidence suggesting that mitophagy exerts cardioprotective effects following infarction (MI) and that impai ...

Fragment based drug discovery starts with screening libraries of fragment-sized organic molecules for binding to the target protein. The fragments cluster at binding hot spots, the most important regions for drug discovery, and can be extended into larger and higher affinity ligands. The protein-mapping program FTMap is a computational analogue of fragment screening experiments. Acpharis has licen ...

There are no effective treatments for microgliopathies, a class of neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by the absence or misfunction of specialized cells in the brain, called microglia. One potential strategy to treat patients with a microgliopathy is to replace their diseased microglia with new cells. The NovoGlia technology platform uses induced pluripotent stem cells to generate new mic ...

Need. In the US, heart failure (HF) is the contributing cause of 1 in 8 deaths. HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects close to 50% of all HF patients. The 5-years mortality is 35%. HFpEF multi-organ syndrome clinical care management is complex and time consuming. In addressing HFpEF, the American College of Cardiology guidelines directed medical therapy (GDMT) references the medical ...

PROJECT SUMMARYEpiCypher is collaborating with Dr. Jessica Tyler (an expert in aging, DNA repair and epigenetics), to develop CUTandRUssNTM (Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using single-stranded Nuclease), a first-in-class single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) mapping technology for research into the early pathogenesis of and possible interventions for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The double-stranded conf ...

Project Summary/Abstract The overall goal of this project is to deliver an automated diffusion image analysis tool to be used in a clinical setting that quickly evaluates the diffusion images in conjunction with MR volumetric images and reports diffusion-based microstructural parameters derived from segmented anatomical locations to determine Alzheimer’s disease status of patients. Alzheimer’s ...

PROJECT SUMMARY - Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) accounts for 10% of ICU admissions worldwide with a mortality as high as 46%. This incidence has risen dramatically in the last year due to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19, and ARDS is the leading cause of death in COVID-19 patients. In the United States, COVID-19 has infected over 30 million and killed 550,000 people ...

PROJECT SUMMARYHistone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are widely studied due to their diverse roles in controlling gene expression. The study of PTMs largely relies on antibodies; however, we have shown that the majority of commercial histone PTM antibodies are plagued by low efficiency and/or low specificity. Antibody quality is of special concern for ultra-low cell input approaches, whi ...