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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Photolitecandapos s patented technology is focused on developing improved agents for tumor imaging image guided surgery and or photodynamic therapy PDT The proposed STTR proposal includes fluorescence image guided PDT a andquot See and Treatandquot approach The fluorescence imaging compound with long wavelength absorption near nm should be extremel ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lipella Pharmaceuticals Inc Pittsburgh PA is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company specializing in intravesical therapies for urinary bladder dysfunctions Lipella is submitting a research proposal to the Small Business Technology Transfer program titled andquot Developing Intravesical Liposomes for Interstitial Cystitisandquot The project proposes to e ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pediatric Food Allergy FA is recognized as a serious public health concern that affects approximately percent of children with symptoms affecting multiple organ systems including skin the respiratory tract and the GI tract Food induced anaphylaxis which is a rapid potentially life threatening reaction can occur in more serious cases Despite the s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chest pain in patients presenting to the emergency department ED present a clinical dilemma transfer for emergent coronary revascularization admit overnight for cardiac telemetry and stress testing or discharge home with medical follow up In this proposal we hypothesize that a novel thrombus specific Spectral Computed Tomography Multicolored CT nanopar ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase II collaboration between Purdue University and bioVidria Inc is to commercialize disruptive new technology for protein chromatography and then maximize its impact by serving the fastest growing segment of the pharmaceutical industry protein drugs The product is a reversed phase chromatography column that uses silica particles of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose to develop the infrastructure for and deploy a commercial installation of an Algorithm Evaluation Service AES The service will help bridge the gap between algorithm researchers and commercial product developers It will assist commercial company in determining which medical image analysis and informatics algorithms they should integrate into t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The leading cause of mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis CF is pulmonary failure from lung infections and the predominant organism isolated from these infections is the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung infections of CF patients persist over the lifetime of the patients and are impossible to eradicate due to the ability of bacteria to form biofi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Using mouse monoclonal antibodies mAbs raised against the mediators of quorum sensing QS the Auto Inducing Peptides AIPs researchers at The Scripps Research Institute TSRI have demonstrated that S aureus infections can be prevented in animal challenge models This approach known as quorum quenching QQ is unique in at least two significant ways fi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegeneration in Alzheimerandapos s disease AD may result from deposition of A as plaques in brain tissue However less effort has been made to elucidate the role of tau containing neurofibrillary tangles NFTs in AD Accumulating evidence suggests that tau containing NFTs is an important component in the initiation and progression of AD and other neu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The declining cost of whole exome sequencing WES is nearing the point at which the spread of WES into clinical practice will be limited largely by the cost of interpreting the results and comparing them to the patientandapos s clinical findings This project builds on our demonstrated capability to reduce this interpretation cost by pairing our diagnostic sof ...