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Abstract. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than 5M Americans today, and is the most common cause of dementia in adults. While current medications slightly delay symptoms, no medications exist to cure or stop disease progression. A current focus at NIA is to identify novel drug targets, that address resilience to AD; also, there is an increasing perspective at NIA that Multi-target therapy m ...

Project Summary. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is among the most powerful analytical techniques ever invented, as recognized by 6 Nobel Prizes for methods development alone. Nonetheless, NMR is notoriously plagued by poor sensitivity. State-of-the-art NMR spectrometers feature detection thresholds of ~1 nanomole for µL sample volumes (~100 nanograms). This places NMR sensitivity many orders of ...

Project Summary/AbstractRelaxin is a heterodimeric 53 amino acid peptide hormone that induces cardiovascular compliance and reproductive tissue remodeling during pregnancy and parturition. In addition to reproductive organs, the relaxin receptor, RXFP1, is also expressed in the liver, heart, lung, kidney, bone and skin. This broad tissue localization has led to the recognition that relaxin is a pl ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The number of people with diabetes worldwide is predicted to increase from 415 million in 2015 to 642 million in 2040. The health care costs of treating diabetes accounts for 12% of the global health expenditure of which Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) constitutes 10-15% of the disease burden (IDF World Atlas 2015). T1DM is an autoimmune disease triggered by genetic and/or environm ...

PROJECT SUMMARYAcne vulgaris is a skin inflammatory condition affecting 80% of young adults and can frequently induce permanent disfigurement even with appropriate treatment. Acne is caused by C. acnes in the setting of hormonal changes and sebum induction that accompany adolescence. The mainstay of therapeutics consist of eradicating C. acnes and reducing inflammation. However, treatment is prolo ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Rotator cuff tears are highly problematic for large patient populations, and therefore remain a very challenging clinical problem. Roughly 20% to 50% of those 60 years of age have a known rotator cuff tear and the prevalence only increases with age. While surgical reconstruction of the rotator cuff seeks to improve shoulder function and stability, the degrees of successful surgical ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Snakebite constitutes one of the largest and most tenacious public health issues on a global scale. Every year, up to 5 million people will suffer snakebite envenomation, causing approximately 125,000 deaths and 400,000 left with permanent physical disability. Nearly 8,000 snakebites occur in the United States each year. The regions most affected are in Asia, Africa, Latin America, ...

AlgenML: Drug target discovery platform for transcriptional reprogramming of MYCN-driven neuroblastoma PROJECT SUMMARY Drug discovery is a laborious, time-consuming, and expensive undertaking for biopharma. Oncology is especially difficult with new drugs in clinical trials having just 3.4% probability of success. This application addresses significant challenges of traditional drug target discover ...

PROJECT SUMMARY—When neck and back pain becomes intractable, spinal fusion is the gold-standard treatment. However, up to 12% of these fusions fail due to infection, resulting in substantial personal and financial costs. In most cases, these infections are associated with the hardware used to stabilize the fusion. Traditionally molded or machined polyether ether ketone (PEEK) cages are widely us ...

AbstractEpigenome analysis can help dissect the transcriptional regulatory sequences that control spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression during anima development and disease pathogenesis, but a major challenge to epigenome analysis is the heterogeneity of primary tissues. Conventional epigenome assays that take bulk tissues as input only produce population average signals. To address this majo ...