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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Highly potent, orally active, metabolically stable, long-lived opioid agents for the treatment of alcoholism that have decreased side effects such as nausea, addiction liability, immunosuppression and respiratory depression represents a great unmet need. While a mu opioid receptor antagonist is currently approved by the FDA for alcoholism, it possesses several ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this project our goal is to develop and commercialize a very low cost microarray chip fabrication technology to reduce the cost by as much as a factor of ten and enable the use of microarrays by groups who can not afford the current generation of microarrays. Our technology combines the standard acid labile DMT protection group containing nucleophosphoramidi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many Americans suffer from ocular diseases which require application of topical therapeutic agents. These diseases range from bacterial conjunctivitis to intraocular inflammation. Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye) affects nearly 30 million people. Glaucoma affects 2 to 3 million Americans. Topical treatments exist but their ability to deliver drugs to the ey ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Broad long term objectives and specific aims: The long-term objective of this project is to develop a digital anatomical research resource library of very high-resolution computational models, and imaging data sets. Our objective is to produce an anatomical library otf the complete human skeleton. The implications of this project, both scientific and social are ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this application is to develop a wearable multi-sensor way finding device for the visually impaired that can function reliably both indoors and outdoors. The Phase I specific aims are to: 1) assemble and test a hardware platform that consists of a pocket-size computer and four sensors: a wireless signal receiver inside a wearable comp ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Delayed reconstitution of antigen-specific immunity following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) predisposes patients to opportunistic infections and tumor recurrence. To address these problems, we are developing a vaccination methodology using a non-replicating but highly immunogenic Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) vector. When an Lm vaccine ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): RNA interference (RNAi) is a specific post-transcriptional gene silencing pathway mediated by intracellular dsRNAs of 21-23 bp in length known as small interfering RNA (siRNA). Since the recent discovery of effective siRNA-mediated gene silencing in mammalian cells, there has been significant validation and enormous interest in the approach from both academic a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Directed evolution has been widely employed to enhance protein structural stability and activity, expand functionality and alter specificity. We propose a novel approach for generating libraries of variant genes that takes advantage of the evolutionary history of a gene family by generating a combinatorial library incorporating amino acid replacements inferred ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significant Aims: Biomedical research, human performance and other laboratories that work with living subjects and perform complex experiments unanticipated by software "solution" providers, must expend significant resources creating & maintaining data acquisition and control (DAQ&C) systems that are seldom useful in other labs because of their complexity or po ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the proposed research is to develop methods to create immune protected universal donor cloned transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) more than 30,000 organ transplants are performed in the US alone, yet greater than 95,000 people are currently on the waiting list to receive donors organs f ...