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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adeno associated virus AAV is a non pathogenic human parvovirus and recombinant AAV vectors have gained significant attention owing to their safety and in some cases clinical efficacy in a number of Phase I II clinical trials However relatively large vector doses are needed to achieve clinical efficacy and such high doses can lead to host immune respon ...

Project Summary Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing public health concern due to the rise of pathogenic bacterial strains with mutations that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs to treat infections Beta lactamases produced by some bacteria provide resistance by degrading beta lactams one of most widely used class of antibiotics Originally restricted to penicillins mutant bet ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hazardous compounds in waters and soils are subject to a complex dynamic web of interactions among physical chemical and biological constituents in the natural environment Computational modeling has been proven indispensable to hazardous substances remediation particularly integrated modeling of pollutant hydrogeological fate and transport For the first t ...

Project Summary This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project proposes the development and optimization of a commercially viable novel polymer based radiation dosimeter for wide spread deployment The radiation dosimeter proposed herein is a disruptive technology with a significant market Although many commercial radiation dosimeters measure individual radiation load dose quantificatio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant ODMR Technologies Inc together with Victor Acostaandapos s group at University of New Mexico is developing a nanophotonic platform capable of uniquely detecting minute quantities of biomolecules The specific detection of biomolecules plays a central role in modern life science including cell systems biology high throughput drug scre ...

Summary RNA synthesis technologies have become critical in basic biomedical research and in development of RNA based sensors diagnostics and therapeutics Currently RNAs are synthesized by either solid phase phosphoramidite chemistry or by transcription in solution with phage encoded RNA polymerases The structural diversity of chemically synthesized RNAs is limited by the availa ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insulin resistance IR also known as metabolic syndrome is tied to obesity and is associated with numerous modern health problems including the growing problems of type diabetes and cardiovascular disease The growing health economic and social burdens of these conditions calls for the need to develop drug treatments for IR We know from multiple lines of ...

PARP inhibitors PARPi are particularly efficacious in tumors deficient in the BRCA tumor suppressor genes but of limited activity in BRCA competent tumors There is an unmet medical need to develop targeted therapeutic agents which will augment PARPi activity for BRCA wild type cancers and to increase chemo radiosensitivity in these malignancies BRCA proteins are essential components ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative diseases are among the most expensive disruptive and least well treated of human maladies arguably because they are not well understood Array tomography AT is a method for tissue imaging with resolution in all three dimensions sufficient to resolve individual synapses and provide quantitative characterization ...