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Project Summary Abstract TuberculosisTBis one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality from infectious disease worldwide with an estimatedmillion cases of active TB andmillion deaths from the disease annuallyDespite emerging new technologiesculture remains the gold standard in TB diagnosis and therapeutic monitoringInthe World Health OrganizationWHOrecommended the use of a liquid culturing ...

Chikungunya virusCHIKVis an alphavirus that has gained significant attention due to its ability to cause large epidemics among susceptible populations and to be spread beyond endemic countries by international travelersAmong a population of approximatelyon the French island of La Reunionpeople were infected and overCHIKV related fatalities occurred during theoutbreakLikewisean estimatedmillion peo ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT Chronic respiratory diseasessuch as COPDasthmaand cystic fibrosisCFare therd leading cause of death in the USwith costs exceeding $B yearA major obstacle to evaluate therapies for these diseases is that currently available tools to assess lung function are either insensitive to early disease or unsuitable for longitudinal useThough ubiquitouspulmonary function testing via s ...

Protein misfolding and aggregationleading to chronic inflammationsynaptic dysfunction and neuronal death are common hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer s diseaseADand Huntington s diseaseHDWhile overmillion Americans suffer from ADand oversuffer from HDcurrent therapies target symptoms but not the underlying pathophysiology of protein misfoldingaggregation and its downstrea ...

SUMMARY Atopic dermatitis is a chronic dermatological condition afflicting mostly infants and young childrenCurrent treatments are associated with a wide range of side effects therefore development of novel therapeutic agents that are efficacious and have an improved safety profile is neededAlthough disease etiology has yet to be fully understoodskin inflammation is known to be critically involved ...

ABSTRACT The development of Sanaria s Plasmodium falciparumPfsporozoiteSPZbased vaccines is receiving overwhelming global support after the publication inin Science of clinical data showingprotection against controlled human malaria infectionCHMIfollowing intravenous administration ofdoses of SanariaPfSPZ Vaccinecomposed of purifiedasepticradiation attenuatedcryopreserved PfSPZ meeting all regulat ...

Project SummaryAbstractAddiction is a diseaseAccording to the National Institute on Drug Abuseaddiction can be hereditaryand canbetriggeredbyenvironmentalconditionsandbehaviorOnekeyenvironmentalfactorinvolvesthereadyaccess to unused prescription opioids by potential abusersespecially teensElysium has discovered a novel molecular deactivationXpiRxorexpiring pilltechnology that is designedto effecti ...

The objective of this research is to develop a novel antibiotic targeting Gram positive bacteriawith an initial clinical indication of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infectionsABSSSIThe research will address the urgent problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria that are spreading around the worldThe new antibiotic is being designed to inhibit a novel targetthe bacterial methionyltRNA synthe ...

Abstract An ideal tool for eliminating Plasmodium falciparumPfthe causative agent ofof all malaria deathswould be a highly effective vaccine that prevents blood stage infection and thereby prevents both disease and transmissionSanaria has developed two effective vaccines that are phaseclinical trialsPf sporozoiteSPZvaccine that prevents Pf blood stage infection in andgtof recipients and PfSPZ Chal ...

TheWHO guidelines recommend anti retroviral therapyARTfor all HIV infected peopleand massive efforts to expand ART access will result in andgtM adults and andgtM children on ART byat a cost of almost US$BConsequentlythe number of patients prescribed alternativeprotease inhibitorPIbased ART following failure of first line regimens will also increaseStudies of patients on PI based ART in resource li ...