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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Up to of low birth weight preterm infants manifest some form of periventricular white matter injury PWMI making it the most common form of brain injury affecting premature infants In the US infants per year are born at risk for PWMI and about children per year will develop PWMI World wide infants will be born each year at ri ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dysbiosis refers to a condition with microbial imbalances within the human microbiome Yogurts are the best examples of using fermenting gut bacteria to rebalance the gut dysbiosis Our results demonstrate for the first time that Staphylococcus epidermidis S epidermidis a commensal bacterium of the human skin functions as a probiotic microorganism that em ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant FasCure Therapeutics focuses on the development of adjuvant systems to generate prophylactic and therapeutic immune responses The major objective of this Phase STTR proposal is to reformulate a lead plague subunit vaccine with a novel adjuvant system to improve its protective efficacy Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Bone loss and fragility from osteoporosis afflict more than million people worldwide including at least million Americans Current osteoporosis treatments are significantly deficient most fail to reverse bone loss and or have adverse effects that prohibit their long term use New therapeutic approaches are urgently needed Recently the TGF family li ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Development of novel lung cancer therapeutics targeting the DNA damage response Abstract Lung tissue is constantly exposed to a wide variety of inhaled chemical agents While the majority of these maybe innocuous those that damage DNA have severe consequences Thus the DNA damage response DDR and DNA repair in these tissues is extremely important The vast ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is an unmet need to inhibit the key cancer promoting transcription factor MYC MYC both cMYC and MYCN acts downstream of many cell receptor complexes and signal transduction pathways to activate genes that drive cancer cell growth and proliferation To date small molecule inhibitors of MYC have been elusive An innovative approach would be to indirectl ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this research is to develop a ligand product and facile method to use it to target FDA approved liposomal anticancer drugs to cancer stem cells that overexpress CD We have devised a highly efficient chemo enzymatic synthesis of a hyaluronan lipid HA lipid ligand and have teamed with ZoneOne Pharma to develop a simple and robust micelle transfer ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Prostate cancer PCa is the No killer among male cancer patients The ultimate test is based on transrectal ultrasound guided needle biopsy and histological examination of fixed prostate tissues This conventional diagnostic procedure is invasive missing cases of cancer due to small sampling volume Moreover it leads to an overtreatment of patients du ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Kinase inhibitors created a new paradigm in chemotherapy and are a major focus of new oncology drug development The Bcr Abl inhibitor imatinib was a breakthrough drug for chronic myelogenous leukemia with overwhelming early results however at least of patients are either intolerant resistant or experience recurrence within years and individual respo ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantIn this Phase II STTR application Rimedion seeks to commercialize a novel treatment for patients suffering from Fanconi anemia and request funding for a Phase I II clinical trialThe product will utilize a HIVbased lentiviral vector expressin the Fanconi anemia A proteinThe strong scientific support for this approached is strengthened by a successful Phase I STTRThe ...