by | Apr 28, 2025 | Apte, Rajendra, Yoshino, Jun
— Published Date: 4/29/2025
Value Proposition: Novel biomarker that can be used as a diagnostic to identify glaucoma severity or progression in patients.
Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have identified a novel biomarker, GDF15, for glaucoma that can detect …
by | Dec 18, 2024 | Barthelemy, Nicolas, Bateman, Randall, He, Yingxin "Chloe", Horie, Kanta, Mukherjee, Soumya
— Published Date: 12/19/2024
Value proposition: Novel method used to detect tau proteins in the brain using biofluids.
Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to identify and differentiate primary and secondary tauopathies in the brain. Man…
by | Jun 21, 2024 | Piwnica-Worms, David, Sharma, Vijay, Sivapackiam, Jothilingam
— Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a novel positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical for myocardial perfusion imaging. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is widely employed in the evaluation of patients with heart disease. Several ag…
by | Jun 18, 2024 | Jiang, Xuntian, Ory, Daniel
— Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a set of novel bile acid biomarkers to screen, diagnose, and monitor the progression of Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease. Current testing for this disease takes an average of three months, is invasive (a skin…
by | Oct 18, 2022 | Semenkovich, Clay, Zayed, Mohamed
— Technology Description
Researchers from Mohamed Zayed’s lab at Washington University have developed a blood biomarker test for atherosclerosis more accurate than LDL. Circulating levels of Fatty Acid Synthase (cFAS) in the serum correlate to a high degree to severity of peripheral atheroscle…