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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Altered cellular energetics contributes to human disease in general physiological aging and chronic diseases in particular including cancer neurodegeneration ischemic heart disease and type diabetes Pathological changes affecting the individual may arise only in specific cells of a tissue and potentially in a heterogeneous manner To advance basic resea ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACTBreast cancer is the second leading cause of death in females with cancerInapproximatelynew cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosedwhere an estimate ofwas expected to succumb to their diseaseIt is estimated that one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetimeBreast cancer is classified into subtypes based on the expression of estrogen receptorERprogest ...

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 ...

In the United States in an estimated million people suffered from Alzheimer s disease AD with as many as being undiagnosed Alzheimer s Association Three stages of AD are proposed National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer s Association preclinical AD mild cognitive impairment MCI due to AD and dementia due to AD The preclinical stage is proposed to begin ...

The human microbiome has emerged as a hitherto unknown causal factor in a number of disease ranging from cancer cardiovascular disease and obesity To understand the biochemical mechanisms of the human microbiome in these diseases researchers must be able to store biochemical pathway transcriptomic and metabolomic datasets in a coherent and compatible form We propose to construct a cloud ba ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy CIPN is a debilitating complication that can arise from use of a number of chemotherapeutics and which limits both the dose and duration of cancer treatments with these agents Up to of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy describe some form of CIPN with sensory neuropathy being dominant Symptoms vary from tingling and numbne ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Over million people worldwide including million people in the USA are HIV positive HIV associated sensory neuropathy HIV SN is the most frequent neurological manifestation of HIV and is characterized as a distal symmetrical predominantly sensory polyneuropathy HIV SN may represent clinically indistinguishable neuropathies with distinct pathogenesis a distal axona ...

There is an unmet need to inhibit the key cancer promoting transcription factor MYCboth c MYC and MYCNthat act downstream of many cell receptors and signal transcription pathways to activate genes for cancer cell resistance and tumor growthTo datesmall molecule inhibitors of MYC have remained elusiveIn our Phase I STTRCAwe developed a lead compoundSFwhich displays potent orthogonal inhibitory acti ...

PROJECT ABSTRACT There are two big challenges to reducing the number of substance use disorders SUDs in the United States Almost of the million people who suffer from SUDs are never professionally diagnosed and never seek treatment and treatment for the small minority that does seek help is not very effective with relapse rates estimated to be between and within ...

Project Summary ODMR Technologies Inc and Prof Victor Acostaandapos s group at University of New Mexico UNM are developing a diamond chip platform capable of direct magnetic characterization of individual nanoparticles for optimized diagnostic imaging Our team is a spinoff from academic collaborations in the emerging field of diamond photonic sensors a field we helped create nearly a deca ...