Sentences with phrase «emerging therapies for»

The dog has already played an important role in emerging therapies for inherited blindness in humans and similarities in disease phenotype and eye structure and function between dog and man, together with the increasingly sophisticated genetic tools that are available for the dog, mean that the dog is likely to play an ever increasing role in both our understanding of the normal functioning of the eye and in our ability to treat inherited eye disorders.

In fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.»

«Emerging Therapies for Inherited Retinal Degeneration,» by Hendrik Scholl et al., Science Translational Medicine, December 2016.

For these reasons, in this issue's special report, «Calming a Child's Mind,» we highlight emerging therapies for the three most prevalent childhood disorders — anxiety, behavior or conduct disorder, and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Not exact matches

Given that its price remains lackluster and greatly disappointing, rich gallows humor has emerged as a form of therapy for those attempting to deal with the irrationality of it all.

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a small - cap clinical - stage vaccine company that focuses on therapies for both known and newly emerging diseases, has lost some support from a Wall Street analyst.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

The principles that have emerged thus far are these: We should seek new knowledge of our genes (and we can say this without deciding whether the Human Genome Initiative is the wisest and most cost - effective way to do so) We should seek therapies for the genetic disorders that afflict many people.

Soon I was an emerging expert on Early Intervention, an Illinois state program of low - cost, in - home therapy services for kids age 0 - 3.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

Even if positive results emerge from these trials, ACT will still face major challenges in getting an ES - cell - based therapy approved for wider use.

But Kenyon believes the findings might have significant implications for emerging diabetes therapies, as well as for diets that could extend lifespans.

Although it is not yet clear how all this is related, these findings are very valuable, since they provide new starting points for clarifying how coronary artery diseases emerge and are thus important steps towards new therapies.

The April issue of Scientific American highlights these emerging therapies, but we have covered the growing promise of immunotherapy for quite a while.

The company that emerged on the other side was slimmer, shedding the weight of a large, too - diversified drug company to become a biopharmaceutical firm focused on specialty therapies for high medical needs.

Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.

The article in the journal Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids titled «As Technologies for Nucleotide Therapeutics Mature, Products Emerge» describes the analysis of more than 60,000 research publications related to oligonucleotide therapies.

Photodynamic detection and therapy has recently emerged as a promising approach for diagnosing and treating cancer.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

Thus, finding new targets for drugs already in use to treat other diseases, in other words drug repurposing, is an emerging area in developing anti-cancer therapies.

«As with many therapies in medicine today, evidence is emerging that a more personalized approach is likely the best approach when determining how much vitamin D is optimal for an individual.

Immune cell therapies using engineered T - cells have recently emerged as successful treatments for some blood cancers, which are referred to as «liquid» tumors.

«Understanding how the drugs work gives us the opportunity to investigate new treatments, for example by using combination therapies, or altering the dosage and timing of treatment to prevent drug resistance from emerging,» Dr Glaser said.

So far, DARPA has released two calls for grant applications, with at least one more likely: The first, called SUBNETS (Systems - Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies), asks researchers to develop novel, wireless devices, such as deep brain stimulators, that can cure neurological disorders such as posttraumatic stress (PTS), major depression, and chronic pain.

Recent days have seen a slew of news emerging regarding the use of something called genome editing as a potential therapy for genetic diseases like Huntington's Disease.

Don't miss the only investor meeting organized specifically for the advanced therapies sector providing unique insight into 30 + top publicly traded and emerging private companies.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

Following a generous gift from the Patrick B. Sands family that allowed McLean Hospital to open a transitional living program for young women who have completed one of 3East's dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) programs for individuals with emerging borderline personality disorder, Patrick Sands said he was overwhelmed by the number of parents who thanked him for making such a program possible.

World Stem Cell Summit and Phacilitate are proud to present a the 3 - day EMERGING SCIENCE track covering ONCOLOGY, TRANSLATIONAL & CLINICAL UPDATE and GENE THERAPY FOR RARE DISEASES.

This specificity in treatment fits with an emerging approach in cancer treatment nationwide, known as personalized medicine, in which the therapies for each patient are selected based on the genes altered in their tumors.

Effective systemic therapy for the treatment of stage III melanoma has emerged.

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

This newly restructured committee will aid the PMC in advancing the era of personalized medicine, specifically by critically evaluating emerging applications of science and technology to patient care for risk assessment, therapy and prevention.

ViaCyte, a private company that has emerged as a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, is currently focused on developing a novel cell therapy for the treatment of diabetes.

«Thanks to improvements in the understanding of AML biology, a multiplicity of so - called targeted therapies and therapies based on differential pathophysiology of leukemic stem cells compared with normal counterparts have emerged,» noted Richard M. Stone, MD, clinical director of the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues, writing in a review for the ASCO 2017 Educational Book.

NYC Neuromodulation 2017 will focus on technologies and mechanism for advanced brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), high - definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD - tDCS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and other emerging areas.

Muthumani's research interest is in the area of immune approaches to emerging infectious diseases and immune therapy approaches for the treatment cancer.

Dr. Bosarge was honored by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) at its annual Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Action Awards for his efforts in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments.

«It is our hope that emerging technologies and future studies will expand on our work, and ultimately lead to safe, targeted, and cost - effective therapies that markedly improve visual outcomes and quality of life for patients suffering from these debilitating eye diseases.»

AAV gene therapy vectors are emerging as the gene transfer vehicle with high potential for use in the CNS as they transduce post mitotic cells that mediate the sustained, long term gene expression required in chronic progressive diseases.

The approach is to use clinically relevant tumor models such as patient - derived xenografts (PDXs), as well as humanized and immunocompetent transgenic tumor - bearing mice to design rational combinations of novel and emerging cancer therapies, including tumor - targeting and immune - stimulating therapies, to ultimately improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients.

«We are encouraged by the preclinical data emerging on SRK - 015, including the effects upon fast - twitch muscle fibers that are particularly relevant for SMA as well as its selectivity profile, which may be very important when considering chronic therapy in children,» said Karen S. Chen, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of the SMA Foundation and a co-author of the study being presented at the Cure SMA Annual Conference.

Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.

Emerging evidence also suggests that it binds with radioactive isotopes and may be useful for radioactivity exposure or radiation therapy.

The Institute is committed to integrating these with the emerging field of yoga therapy to create win - win opportunities for sustainable healing, for both our program graduates and those with whom they work.

While many of today's tools were not yet available in 1991, IFM was already focused on using this emerging knowledge to adapt therapies to the patient (rather than the reverse) by training clinicians to examine the genetic and epigenetic factors for each patient and to develop an individualized therapeutic approach that addresses these underlying factors.

Medtronic has stated that its business goals are for mid-single-digit revenue growth through expansion into emerging global markets and therapy innovation.

Bella's success is one of many examples at UC Davis that shows TPE to be emerging as an innovation in veterinary therapeutics for IMHA and should be considered a first - line, rather than a delayed, therapy for animals with severe IMHA unresponsive to initial blood transfusions or medical therapy.

As we have mentioned, no definitive therapy has emerged for reliably curtailing the episode but we can do several things to make the cat more comfortable.

Dogs compete in eight categories for the Hero Dog Awards: Law Enforcement & Arson Dogs, Service Dogs, Therapy Dogs, Military Dogs, Guide Dogs, Search and Rescue Dogs, Hearing Dogs and Emerging Hero Dogs (the category for «ordinary» dogs).