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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase STTR research is to quantify genotoxicity in basal cell keratinocytes from organotypic cultures Epiderm in response to commonly used chemical agents The proposed product is a Comet Chip assay that measures DNA damage in basal cells derived from a reconstructed human epidermis Technical questions that will be addressed are Ca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer and represents a targetable vulnerability yet is underdeveloped as a therapeutic area The central goal of this Phase program is to complete the early preclinical development of a new class of new cancer therapeutics that uniquely target RAD delivering effective cancer cell selective therapy in subsets of bioma ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Due to the rapid advances in science technology engineering and mathematics STEM the United States has been at the forefront of innovation and technology development in the science health and biomedical fields However these continuing advances are in jeopardy as there is a growing national shortage of trained STEM workers While the need for a STEM li ...

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 objective of this Phase II STTR grant application is to continue the R Randamp D efforts initiated in Phase I The long term objective for Arrhythmotech is to develop and market an instrument for the simultaneous recording of sympathetic nerve activity SNA and electrocardiogram ECG using electrodes on the skin This method neuECG was discovered in Dr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glioblastoma multiforme GBM the most common and malignant of all gliomas has a median survival time of months Standard of care chemotherapy using temozolomide TMZ is effective initially but the GBM inevitably recurs and these recurrent tumors are resistant to TMZ There are currently no effective treatment options for patients with TMZ resistant ...

Project Summary Abstract Development of Optimized Endectocide treated Bird Feed Formulations for West Nile Virus Control STTR Phase I Application PIs Brady Clapsaddle TDA Research Inc Dr Brian Foy Colorado State University West Nile Virus WNV is the leading cause of domestically acquired arboviral disease in the United States resulting in significant disease and death every year in both ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ebolaviruses and Marburg virus MARV constitute the family Filoviridae andquot filovirusesandquot that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with human case fatalities of The current epidemic in West Africa unprecedented in terms of geographic scope and size highlights the continued need for development of therapeutics Among the five ebolavirus spe ...

For more than years sub Saharan Africa has suffered with high rates of endemic meningococcal disease and periodic epidemic epidemics involving over cases In a low cost serogroup A polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine MenAfriVac was introduced in the region The vaccine confers protection against serogroup A MenA disease as well as asymptomatic nasopharyngeal MenA carria ...