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Summary Breast cancer is the second most common and the major cause of cancer related death of women in the USA The last decade has witnessed major advancement of therapeutic drugs and tools while noninvasive diagnostic imaging tools to measure interventions received much less attention Currently the mainstay of noninvasive imaging in breast cancer relies primarily on anatomic imaging Metabol ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT Traditional approaches to drug development for Alzheimer s disease are becoming increasingly expensive and in many cases disappointingly unsuccessful Based on preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies we have identified a novel small molecule methyl dimethyl oxo dihydrobenzo c naphthyridine carboxylate UK that significantly decreases A production and pro in ...

Alzheimer s Disease AD is the most common form of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the US More than million people in the US currently have AD and the direct health care cost is over $ billion per year Detection of early phase of AD namely Mild Cognitive Impairment MCI can delay prevent and treat this serious disease The project will develop a clinically feasible sy ...

Abstract Summary Nectome will create technologies to enable whole brain nanoscale preservation and imaging a vital step towards a deep understanding of the mind and of the brainandapos s diseases Current brain processing technologies compromise between whole brain applicability or nanoscale resolution our technologies will achieve both si multaneously Similar to the way that next generation ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Traumatic brain injuries TBI are an area of significant unmet need with no approved therapeutics and a national burden of $ billion annually Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals is developing a small molecule pharmaceutical agent that would be administered by intravenous injection by emergency responders or a medical professional within hours of injury to limit n ...

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 ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Respiratory syncytial virus RSV is a substantial threat to human health most severely affecting three large populations infants young children and the elderly Despite the significance of RSV disease in these different populations there are no vaccines available The goal of this Phase II STTR project is to continue preclinical testing of a novel RSV vac ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low cost point of care mobile device based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos s murmur the most common innocent benign and harmless heart murmur of childhood This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over a million children unnecessarily referred to pedia ...