by | Nov 2, 2021 | Biswas, Pratim, Chadha, Tandeep, Fang, Jiaxi
— Engineers in Prof. Pratim Biswas’ laboratory have developed an electrostatic precipitator device that removes ultrafine pollutants and inactivates pathogens from the air at high efficiency and low cost. This gas cleaning system has the potential to replace HEPA filters for air filtering applic…
by | Sep 29, 2021 | Ellebedy, Ali
— Disease indication – SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
Drug format
Drug class – Best-in-class
Research stage and Preliminary data – The inventors have developed and characterized these antibodies, creating a chimeric version with a human IgG backbone for SARS2-38. The antibodies have …
by | May 19, 2021 | Hotchkiss, Richard, Mazer, Monty, Remy, Kenneth, Turnbull, Isaiah
— Technology Description
A team of researchers, led by Richard Hotchkiss at Washington University in St. Louis, have developed a version of the ELISpot assay to determine if COVID-19 patients are in a hyper-inflammatory or immunosuppressed state. The results of this assay, which can be performed wit…
by | Apr 29, 2021 | Adams, Lucas, Diamond, Michael, Fremont, Daved, VanBlargan, Laura
— Disease indication – SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
Drug format – Chimeric monoclonal antibody
Drug class – Best-in-class
Research stage and Preliminary data – The inventors have developed and characterized this antibody, creating a chimeric version with a human IgG backbone. T…
by | Apr 7, 2021 | Jun, Young-Shin, Singamaneni, Srikanth
— Technology Description
A team of researchers led by Young-Shin Jun have developed a polymer coating for N95 respirators that would permit fast, easy, and cheap N95 disinfection using only direct sunlight. The researchers coated the outermost fabric layer in polydopamine, which converts photon energ…