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Project Summary Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide and is expected to affect more than 110 million people worldwide within the next two decades. It is a degenerative disease that has a large impact both in terms of patient quality of life and in costs to the healthcare system. A critical need in glaucoma clinical management and research is the ability to accurately i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have developed and patented (U.S. Pat No. 5,706,830) a new type of closed circuit perfluorocarbon (PFC) liquid ventilator with enhanced capabilities for gas exchange and exudates clearance from the lungs. This system has potential application to rescue of patients in acute respiratory failure and treatment of cystic fibrosis. ...

Abstract Sepsis, a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by whole-body inflammation caused by the body's response to an infection, is the most expensive and deadly condition treated in hospitals, with over 270,000 cases of sepsis-related deaths in the U.S. alone. The cornerstones of optimal sepsis care are early recognition accompanied by appropriate antimicrobial therapy, and use of evidence-based ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this STTR project is to develop a pre-formed, naturally-based hydrogel postoperative adhesion barrier with improved handling characteristics, laparoscopic deliverability, and consistent efficacy. Our technology is based on a novel, patented process that imparts exceptional elasticity and toughness on normally brittle, weak materials. Postoperative a ...

AlgenML: Drug target discovery platform for transcriptional reprogramming of MYCN-driven neuroblastoma PROJECT SUMMARY Drug discovery is a laborious, time-consuming, and expensive undertaking for biopharma. Oncology is especially difficult with new drugs in clinical trials having just 3.4% probability of success. This application addresses significant challenges of traditional drug target discover ...

The long range goal of this fast track research application is to improve healthcare quality and reduce healthcare costs nationwide among those at risk for medication related hospitalizationThe specific objective of this proposed research is to develop an algorithm that uses existing electronic health information to efficiently identify patients at risk of medication related hospitalization so tha ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to develop and commercialize a novel approach for allergen specific immunotherapy as treatment for severe food allergy. Food allergy affects about 3.5% of the US population and 6% to 8% of young children. It is clearly on the rise. Peanut allergy, which affects around 1% of the population, is among the most severe food allergies, r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by fungi that contaminate crops during growth, transportation, or storage. Contamination of food and feed by mycotoxigenic fungi is an important agricultural and national security concern. For example, thousands of people are sickened annually by mycotoxicoses related to crops contaminated with fungi, and the safety of th ...

Allosteric Drug Discovery using Quantum Cascade Laserbased Anisotropic THz Microscope (QCL-ATM) Proposal in Response to NIH/NIGMS STTR PA-20-265 This STTR will result in a commercially viable instrument that will enable critical research in allosteric drugs and protein dynamics. To date allosteric inhibitors are largely found serendipitously. Anisotropic THz microspectroscopy (ATM) uniquely measur ...

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): The investigators have developed a plasmid vector that expresses the normal human alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) gene in human respiratory epithelium when delivered as a plasmid-cationic liposome complex. In subjects with inherited AAT deficiency, they showed that liposome mediated transfer of the normal AAT gene to the nasal respiratory epi ...