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PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Every year, 50,000 very low birth weight (VLBW, andlt;1,500 g) infants are born in the U.S. The use of surfactant dramatically decreases morbidity and mortality due to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in VLBW infants. Current standards for surfactant administration require the infant to be intubated, so that surfactant can be delivered to the trachea and lungs. Intuba ...

Aerosolized pathogenssuch as Influenza virusescan spread rapidly and silently throughout a populationcausing severe outbreaks that can be difficult to controlEarly detection of these airborne pathogens is key to controlling outbreaksespecially among vulnerable populations such as in hospitalstreatment centers or nursing homesYet available methods are neither rapidnor portableCurrent methods rely h ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Breast cancer is expected to cause 39,510 deaths of American women in 2012 and 450,000 deaths globally. Once breast cancer has spread, it is essentially incurable. A critical barrier to treating advanced breast cancer is the lack of cancer-specific drugs that are effective in a large percentage of cancer patients and have low toxicity. Sixone Solutions, LLC pro ...

Methamphetamine use disorder is associated with damage to regions of the brain that control cognitive and psychiatric functionOne third to one half of adults with methamphetamine use disorder experience cognitive impairments and other psychiatric symptoms that significantly impact treatment outcomesincreased relapse and lower treatment retention ratesMounting evidence demonstrates how immune facto ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite advances in surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, the average life span of a patient with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is about 15-months from time of diagnosis. Integrins are heterodimeric receptors found on the surface of GBM cells and angiogenic vasculature; they facilitate invasion into adjacent tissue. Normal brain tissue does not display ...

Project Summary Abstract The advent of the Zika virusZIKVepidemic around the world has and will cause problems for the correct diagnosis of flavivirus infectionsFor many yearsDENV serological diagnosis was relatively straightforwardHoweverafter the recent ZIKV epidemiccross reactive antibodiesAbsgenerated after ZIKV infection will bind to DENV even if the patient has never had DENVThe only FDA app ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project is a Phase I STTR collaboration between Vala Sciences Inc, a small business that specializes in the development of cell-based high content/high throughput assays, and the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, a worldwide leader in biomedical research. The project will develop an assay (Kinetic Image Cytometer-Neuron, or KIC-Neuron) to ...

PROJECT SUMMARY More thanpatients are diagnosed each year with glioblastomathe most common primary brain tumorCurrent treatments are inadequate and there have been no major therapeutic breakthroughs in decadesHencethere is an urgent need to develop novel strategies to address this devastating diseaseHoweverdevelopment of an effective treatment for glioblastoma is severely hampered bythe blood brai ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSC) is responsible for the development of liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases of all causes and remarkably, HSC clearance by apoptosis may allow recovery from liver injury andreversal of liver fibrosis. There is full agreement among liver fibrosis experts that inhibiting o reversing HS activation (the therapeutic targ ...

Project Summary AbstractThe recent rapid expansion of genomic data greatly contributes to the understanding of disease development and progressionTo translate these genetic discoveries into clinical applicationswe need to develop therapeutic platforms that can specifically modulate the expression of disease related genes in vivoSmall RNAssuch as microRNAs and siRNAs function in messenger RNA silen ...