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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Overall Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive bacteria which possesses a multitude of virulence factors It is a frequent and severe pathogen in hospitals and of increasing concern in the community where it results in severe skin infections pneumonia bacterial endocarditis and sepsis A significant proportion of these infections are the result of methici ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The early onset of alcohol misuse during adolescence is a widespread problem in the U S Studies have consistently documented both the short and long term adverse neurophysiological impacts and health risk behaviors associated with alcohol misuse during adolescence Given the magnitude of this problem and its myriad consequences preventing early initiation of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The abuse of illicit drugs such as cocaine marijuana and heroin remains a critical public health concern throughout the country and is associated with staggering economic and social consequences Cocaine remains the most frequently recorded illicit drug in emergency hospital visits and the leading cause of drug related deaths in the United States Since as hi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Safe and reliable access to major blood vessels and internal organs will be beneficial to patients with cardiovascular disease and cancer An interventional catheter with forward viewing ultrasound imaging capability will be developed to enable image guided access to blood vessels and internal organs Phase experiments demonstrate feasibility of building a hi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are currently no drugs or other therapeutic interventions that can reverse or halt the progression of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD Age is by far the greatest risk factor for AD and it is known from studies in both mice and humans that neuroinflammation is increased with old age and to an even greater extent in AD Therefore a drug that could reduce ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glucocorticoids GCandapos s such as prednisolone are used frequently to induce remission and treat multiple sclerosis MS Despite effectiveness many GC mediated detrimental side effects including osteoporosis and muscle atrophy limit long term chronic treatment of MS patients These side effects are believed to be mediated by well described glucocorticoi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The increasing prevalence of drug resistant bacterial infections highlights the critical medical need for new agents that are not susceptible to existing resistance mechanisms Few new agents are in development for Gram negative bacteria which take up small molecules sparingly and efflux most compounds that reach the periplasm A particularly problematic group ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neglected Tropical Diseases NTD which include helminthiasis and leishmaniasis are a group of thirteen parasitic and bacterial infections that affect over billion people Although these are devastating diseases of global concern their neglected status relative to other health concerns has resulted in a limited arsenal of therapeutic compounds for their ...