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Isolating live cells after high-throughput, long-term, time-lapse microscopy
Researchers led by Johan Paulsson have engineered a high-throughput microfluidic device for multigenerational culturing, imaging, and tracking of single-cell lineages. The platform is highly customizable and is compatible with many cell types,…
DBD
- Irit Ben-Chelouche
Investigators
- Johan Paulsson
Extracellular vesicles for COVID-19 vaccine development
The laboratory of Quan Lu at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has developed an innovative vaccine platform that features a novel antigen display technology that has been shown to elicit broadly neutralizing antibody responses from…
DBD
- Grant Zimmermann
Investigators
- Quan Lu
Utilizing the herpes simplex virus-based vaccine vectors to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
Researchers in the lab of David Knipe have constructed the HSV-1 based vaccine vector HSV-1 d106S. The vector can express viral, bacterial, or cancer gene products and has been used to induce protective immunity in humanized mice against HIV and…
DBD
- Vivian Berlin
Investigators
- David Knipe
Compounds that block human cytomegalovirus by targeting the nuclear egress complex
Researchers in Dr. Donald Coen’s lab have identified molecules that inhibit human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) virion egress from the cell, effectively inhibiting HCMV replication. The team is looking to expand on these findings in collaborations that…
DBD
- Grant Zimmermann
Investigators
- Donald Coen
Promising new hand disinfection technology to eliminate pathogens
Pathogens found in the air and on surfaces present a massive global health challenge, threating human health and food security. With the increased prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the use of harmful chemicals in typical…
DBD
- Alan Gordon
Investigators
- Philip Demokritou
- Georgios Pyrgiotakis
- Joseph Brain
- Nachiket Vaze
- Mary Eleftheriadou
Platform for AAV Delivery to Skin
Emerging startup: A platform technology from George Church's lab enables delivery of gene therapy via the skin. (Image credit: Carl Schoellhammer, Denitsa Milanova, Humberto Trevino, Cody Cleveland, Jeff Wyckoff, Anna Mandinova, George Church,…
DBD
- Grant Zimmermann
Investigators
- George Church
Polymixin synergistic novobiocin analogs for efficacious and safer treatment of Gram negative infections
The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) containing outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria prevent penetration of antibiotics, making them ineffective against infections. Polymyxins, including colistin, bind LPS and disrupt the outer membrane and hence are…
DBD
- Vivian Berlin
Investigators
- Daniel Kahne
Stapled peptide that inhibits bacterial transporter
Multidrug-resistant infection has become a worldwide epidemic in recent years especially in hospitals and other community-associated settings, causing great suffering of patients and huge healthcare burden. According to CDC, at least 23,000 people…
DBD
- Vivian Berlin
Investigators
- Martin Karplus
Novel antibiotics against Gram-negative and drug-resistant bacterial pathogens
Dr. Kahne has a pipeline of programs aimed at developing first-in-class antibiotics:Program I: Potentiator of polymixin, increasing its therapeutic index for treatment of drug-resistant infectionsIn vitro: Novel agent potentiates activity of…
DBD
- Vivian Berlin
Investigators
- Daniel Kahne
Studying interactions between essential bacterial ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter MsbA and bacterial LPS to pave the way for new antibiotic discovery
Gram-negative bacteria cause multiple infectious disease and are increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics. However, development of drugs targeting these organisms is complicated by the extreme complexity of the structure of gram-negative cell…
DBD
- Grant Zimmermann
Investigators
- Maofu Liao