by | Oct 22, 2019 | Curiel, David
— Disease indication – Cancer
Drug format – Adenoviral vector for immunotherapy/dendritic cell therapy
Drug class – Improvement
Research stage and Preliminary data:
Target – Carbohydrate biomarkers of cancer
Background:
Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen presenting cell…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Finkbeiner, Stacy, Virgin, Herbert, Wang, David, Zhao, Guoyan
— Technology Description
A team of researchers at Washington University and the Centers for Disease Control discovered, sequenced and patented a novel human astrovirus that can cause encephalitis and gastroenteritis (non-etiologic diarrhea), offering a path to detection and diagnostics.
The virus (…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Lam, Woei Chuan, Lodge, Jennifer, Upadhya, Rajendra
— Cryptococcus fungi are pathogenic fungi that, unless treated, are invariably fatal to those individuals infected, particularly to those who are immunocompromised. Recent reports indicate that Cryptococcus fungi infects 1,000,000 individuals per year and causes approximately 600,000 deaths. While ant…