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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Each year in the United States over 270,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and over 40,000 will die from the disease. While multiple forms of breast cancer exist, a common theme in most of the forms involvesaberrations in signal transduction pathways that lead to inhibition of the programmed cell death process known as apoptosis. Apoptosis is a care ...

Abstract GlioblastomaGBMis the most lethal form of adult brain cancers with a median survival of andltmonths despite aggressive standard chemoradiationGBM are formed by GBM stem like cellsGSCsa major contributor to tumor recurrence and a natural focus for therapeutic developmentThere are two main reasons responsible for treatment failurehigh intraand inter tumor cellular and molecular heterogeneit ...

SUMMARYParkinsonandapos s diseasePDis the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimerandapos s diseaseADaffecting more thanmillion people in the United StatesBecause age is the major risk factorthe prevalence of both diseases is steadily increasing as our population agesPD belongs to the group of protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases that are due to the misfolding and ...

ABSTRACT The goal of this project is to discover and develop a new therapeutic smore potent than current antifungals for the treatment of invasive fungal infectionsAmong invasive fungal infectionscryptococcosiscandidiasisand aspergillosis are the most life threateningThe incidence of these infections has risen more thanfold over the lastyearswith a mortality rate ofyearWe recently discovered a fun ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Solidus Biosciences, Inc. in partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is proposing to address a critical need in chemical safety technology through its proprietary Transfected Enzyme and Metabolism Chip (or TeamChip) for high-throughput analysis of systematic drug candidate and chemical metabolism and toxicology. The TeamChip is being developed to mi ...

ABSTRACTSignal Solutions has developed a novelnoninvasive and automated piezoelectric based sleep detection system for high throughput studies of sleep in miceand has recently expanded to rat studies as wellThe respiratory signal detected by the piezo sensor during sleep can be applied to investigate important health conditions including respiratory depression due to disease or drug useand other s ...

PROJECT SUMMARYAcute compartment syndromeACSremains one of the most devastating and often overlooked traumatic musculoskeletal disorders in clinical practiceIn this conditionpressure increases in one of the body s spacelimited compartmentsdue most commonly to direct trauma or bone fractureresulting ultimately in an ischemic injury to all of the compartment s contentsincluding muscle and nerveOnce ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 7.5 million high school students participate in high school sports programs and an additional 2 million students join these athletic teams each year. Adolescent athletes are at risk for using performance enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids, unregulated sport supplements, and illicit drugs and alcohol. Unfortunately, few evidence-based substance abus ...

Alzheimer s disease affects approximatelymillion AmericansNIAand bythis number is expected to more than double tomillionUntil cures for the dementias are discoverednew technologies are imperative that can help reduce the emotional burden of AD ADRD for older adults and their care giversGoal C of NIA s strategic planIn this STTRSmall Business Technology TransferPhase I studywe test the feasibility ...

One in ten of the persons ageare affected by Alzheimer s diseaseADcausing enormous social and economic burden to the United StatesTo date only five medications have been approved by the FDA for the treatment of the symptoms of ADbut none of them slows or stops the disease progressionWith the recent repeated failures of AD drugs on thesecretase inhibitorsthe need for an effective AD drug became eve ...