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Novel Vaccines and Therapeutics Against Melioidosis
Background Melioidosis, also commonly known as Whitmore’s disease, is an infection caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (B. pseudomallei) that currently has an estimated mortality rate of 54%. This bacteria lives in contaminated soil and surface water, and can be transmitted to humans or animals through direct contact. This bacterium...
Published: 6/11/2024   |   Inventor(s): Tung Hoang, Ian McMillan, Yun Heacock-Kang, Zhenxin (Amy) Sun, Jan Zarzycki-Siek, Michael Norris
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Category(s): Life Science (All LS Techs), Non-Cancer Therapeutics, Vaccines/Antimicrobials
Chance-Constrained Optimization for Treatment of Prostate and Other Cancers in Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy
The quality of IMPT treatment plans may be drastically diminished by uncertainties such as proton range and patient setup errors. If these uncertainties are not figured into treatment planning, the dose distribution that the patient receives may not be the same as the planned dose distribution. New treatment plans, which include optimized software/programming,...
Published: 4/19/2023   |   Inventor(s): Jianming Liang, Yu An, Wei Liu
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Category(s): Computing & Information Technology, Life Science (All LS Techs), Medical Imaging