SBIR/STTR Research Award
Biomarkers for Occult Neural Infectious Disease
Award amount
$99,996Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PROTEIN EXPRESS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-19
- Contract end date
- 2009-08-19
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- OSD08-H05
Research abstract
Despite years of research, the etiology of senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (AD) is still unknown. Infectious agents have never been ruled out, and our reliminary studies suggest that bacteria derived from AD brain slices cultured in our novel EBTKS medium may be involved. To identify these bacteria, brain slices will be cultured and non-human DNA sequences derived from the culture by massively parallel means. These sequences will permit (1) the determination of diagnostic PCR primer sets and (2) antigenic peptides that may be used to develop antibody-based diagnostic reagents.
Technology keywords
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