UW Madison researchers have developed RhlR modulators including agonist and antagonists which are useful for modulating QS phenotypes in Gram-negative bacteria. Certain compounds of general formula A-...
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The UW/VA inventor showed that hCG raises circulating sex hormone levels in a mouse model for TBI as compared to sham treated mice. The data indicated that 1) craniectomy is sufficient to induce persi...
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UW-Madison researchers, in collaboration with a professor from the University of Missouri, propose using the cryptic lineages (4-24 amino acid substitutions) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein sequence t...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a SARS-CoV-2 live-attenuated vaccine virus based on the original Wuhan genome but lacking the envelope (E) open reading frame. This vaccine virus replicates effic...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel approach for enhancing pyroptosis, which could prove beneficial in treating cancer. The inventors combine intracellular delivery of gasdermin with a small...
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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease caused by the immune system’s destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. To date, there is no preventative treatment, nor is there a cure ...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered that using allogenic arterial endothelial cells (not genetically modified to alter the immune response) perform better than hypoimmunogenic cells for producing s...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for preparing PTP1b-deficient neutrophils, which exhibit improved recruitment and antimicrobial functions. The inventors employed CRISPR/Cas9 to delete PT...
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Clostridium botulinum produces the lethal botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT). There are several types of BoNT, and the subtype BoNT/A1 is used medically to treat muscle movement disorders and cosmetic concer...
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UW Madison researchers have developed a virus-free, CRISPR-Cas mediated method of generating T cells that target senescent cells. These modified T cells could be used to treat Alzheimer’s Disease an...
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The present invention relates to a ‘sugar fermentate of edible fungi’ (i.e., cultures of GRAS species from the genus Aspergillus) that exhibits antimicrobial activity (e.g., against Lister...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a series of mutant influenza B viruses that incorporate mutations in the HA1 protein that cause the virus to react with sera generated via exposure to the opposit...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a dendron-micelle (DM) nanoparticle platform that can be used for combination therapy in the treatment of interstitial lung disease (ILD), including idiopathic pu...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for generating SIRPα-KO macrophages with superior anti-tumor activity, and SIRPα-knockout neutrophils with superior anti-bacterial and anti-tu...
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Theranostics, a term derived from a combination of therapeutics and diagnostics, is an emerging field of medicine where specific radionuclide disease-targeting agents are used to diagnose and treat me...
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UW-Madison researchers have identified novel ACE2 mutants having enhanced activity and/or specificity in hydrolyzing angiotensin II. ACE2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2) is a key metalloprotease of ...
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The present invention relates to novel IBV vaccines containing novel modified S and N antigens from avian coronaviruses. The modifications include: S has a modified transmembrane domain for better s...
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The present invention relates to a novel bivalent coronavirus/influenza virus vaccine (called CoroFlu). The vaccine comprises a coronavirus antigen (a secreted version of the spike (S) protein of SARS...
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The present technology from UW Madison inventors provides nanoparticles comprising a positively charged polymer (e.g., polylysine) electrostatically bound to iron oxide nanoparticles and CpG oligodeox...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel fusion protein for inducing Breg cell formation and a method for transforming any human B cell into an IL10-competent, functional Breg cell ex vivo at sca...
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UW researchers have identified the combination of TLR3 and TLR9 agonists as the most effective means of activating T cells and induing anti-tumor activity when used with a DNA vaccine to treat prostat...
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UW-Madison researchers successfully developed and demonstrated improved mRNA stabilization techniques that leverage mineral coatings. In short, the inventors stabilized mRNA complexes on mineral coate...
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UW-Madison researchers have discovered a novel marker in cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts that reliably predicts extracellular matrix production in cultured cardiac fibroblasts. Sushi Domain Con...
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UW Madison researchers and collaborators have developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 α/β-polypeptides, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods to inhibit, treat, and ameliorate SARS...
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The inventors have developed a novel system for co-differentiation of hepatocytes and hematopoietic progenitors from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) that mimics a late fetal liver undergoing hem...
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