by | Dec 1, 2019 | Hawkins, William, Spitzer, Dirk
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Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed an additional targeting strategy to provide more flexibility and improve the bioactivity of the anticancer therapeutic TR3. This strategy targets TR3 to mesothelin, a tumor biomarker fr…
by | Dec 1, 2019 | Hawkins, William, Spitzer, Dirk
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Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a strategy to specifically target the anticancer therapeutic TR3 to cancer cells using the mesothelin/MUC16 interaction. Mesothelin is a GPI linked cell surface protein expressed in mes…
by | Dec 1, 2019 | Hawkins, William, Hotchkiss, Richard, Spitzer, Dirk
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed a novel TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand)-based anticancer drug platform, designated TR3. TRAIL has potent and specific apoptotic activity against tumor cells. Thus,…
by | Nov 25, 2019 | Henderson, Jeffrey P.
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Researchers in Prof. Jeffrey Henderson’s laboratory have discovered a drug target and a class of small molecule candidates that could be used to selectively prevent pathogenic enterobacteria from causing diseases such as urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Currently, UTI…
by | Nov 18, 2019 | Altman, Michael, Green, Olga, Kavanaugh, James, Li, Hua, Mutic, Sasa, Wooten, Hasani
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A team of researchers at Washington University has created a machine learning method to quickly and reliably validate patient contours in digital medical images for radiation therapy and computer aided image analysis.
Currently, automated contouring tools for delineating tu…