The present invention from UW-Madison researchers is a set of analogs of turbinmicin that show similar efficacy but are more soluble than the parent molecule. The parent molecule proved to be fairly i...
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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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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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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 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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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 present invention from UW Madison inventors is a set of analogs of turbinmicin that show similar efficacy but are more soluble than the parent molecule. The parent molecule proved to be fairly ins...
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The present technology from UW Madison innovators provides a system for monitoring quorum-sensing in bacteria comprising bacteria that release at least one membrane-lytic toxin when the bacteria are a...
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The present technology from this UW Madison researcher is a germinant mixture that includes a) a bile acid main germinant, b) an amino acid co-germinant, c) an edible spore solubilizing agent, and d) ...
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.2 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.1 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW Madison researchers have provided herein biodegradable polymers and nanoparticles comprising such polymers. The present nanoparticles deliver antibiotics to infected tissue with enhanced antibacter...
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Biochemically active PASTA kinase inhibitors which exploit subtle structural differences between human kinases and bacterial PASTA kinases to improve specificity and inhibitor activity.
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a severe and highly fatal hemorrhagic fever that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the Ebola virus, a single-stranded RNA virus that encodes seven structur...
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Every year worldwide, millions of people experience morbidity and mortality as a consequence of severe fungal disease. In the United States, mortality from invasive fungal disease is approximately 50 ...
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Provided herein are polymer-drug conjugates with enhanced antibacterial efficacy. These conjugates include a polymer comprising a plurality of masked cationic functional groups and an antibiotic drug ...
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The present invention relates to methods of use of glycosyltransferases and related compounds. The invention exploits the reversibility of glycosyltransferases to generate new sugars, unnatural biomol...
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Compounds that regulate quorum sensing in Staphylococcal bacteria and in particular in Staphylococcus aureus are provided. Compounds are described in formulas I, II, III, IV, V and VI herein. One or m...
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The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes internal genes from an influenza virus vaccine strain or isola...
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The present invention discloses an ionic liquid composition comprising an at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid, wherein the at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid comprises a dication comp...
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Cyphomycin, an isolated compound of Formula I or IA is provided. A compound isolated from insect Streptomyces and having a chemical formula of C77H122O26 is also provided. Compositions including Cypho...
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The present disclosure relates provides compounds according to Formula I or Formula II as well as compositions including such compounds useful for the prevention of schistosomiasis infection and/or sw...
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Compounds of formula (I) or formula (II), compositions and methods useful for treating and/or preventing a fungal infections are provided. wherein the substituents are as defined in the appended claim...
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Disclosed herein are circular zymogens of RNase 1 that have a proteolytic cleavage site and are activated by a specific protease. These circular zymogens are useful for treatment of disorders that are...
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