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PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT PEEL TherapeuticsIncis a life sciences company created to impact the lives of people with cancerBased on the research efforts of DrJoshua Schiffman and DrAvi SchroederPEEL TherapeuticsPEELhas created liposomal nanoparticles that have been loaded with elephant pEPproteins as a new class of anti cancer protein therapeuticsElephants have an unexpectedly low rate of cancer giv ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mobile phone technology offers a variety of opportunities for innovative approaches to health communication and intervention. These opportunities have been amplified by the emergence of next-generation smartphone devices that are capable of rich multimedia and sophisticated interactivity. Smartphone-based programs can be integrated seamlessly into a user's ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute and chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers represent a major area of medical concern. With roughly 27 million patients suffering from these types of partial thickness wounds, representing substantial billions in medical expenses, a means to rapidly close such acute and chronic wounds with minimal medical staff involvement would be a major new bre ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute lung injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are characterized by a rapid and severe respiratory failure, arising after clinical events including major surgery, trauma, multiple transfusions and sepsis. ALI/ARDS have an associated mortality of 40-80% and current pharmacological modalities have been unsuccessful in decreasing mortality. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Debridement of dead, damaged and/or infected tissue from thermal burn wounds and a certain subset of ischemic and necrotic diabetic foot wounds is a commonly utilized wound preparation modality before the application of fillers, dressings or grafts. The existing wound debridement techniques have serious issues such as invasiveness and impreciseness, painful ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The liver is the site of many metabolic processes, including metabolism of xenobiotics such as pharmaceutical compounds. Drug metabolism is highly species specific and can vary significantly between individuals of the same species. To date no reliable experimental system capable of predicting the human-specific metabolic conversion of candidate small molecules ...

The over arching goal of this Phase I SBIR proposal is to begin to optimize and implement standard reference diets for the ZebrafishDanio rerioan animal model of critical importance to the understanding of human health and development of vertebrate organismsA key problem in the industry is that standardized diets or feed management strategies have not been developed for Danio rerioThese diets are ...

In the USthe number of individuals agedand older will increase byover the next decadeConcurrentlyMedicare costs are expected to double to treat chronic diseases that will plague this increasing number of older adultsOne of the most wide spread chronic diseases that affects older adults is sarcopeniawhich is observed inof adults overyears of age andof adults overyears of ageThis disease is characte ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II, Hunter syndrome) is an X-linked recessive inherited disorder caused by absence of iduronate-2-sulfatase, resulting in systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycans heparan sulphate and dermatan sulphate. Affected individuals suffer from skeletal abnormalities, organomegaly, life- threatening obstructive airway disease, and, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The product that will result from this STTR is ABH (2(S)-amino-6-boronohexanoic acid), a potent small molecule inhibitor of the enzyme arginase, for treating vascular complications of diabetes. There are 20.8 million Americans with diabetes. More than 65% of these people will die from heart disease or stroke. Men with diabetes are twice as likely, and women wi ...