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Preventing Acute Kidney Injury Using JHU083

Unmet Need: It is estimated that 13.3 million people worldwide are affected by acute kidney injury (AKI) (see Bjornstad et. al). AKI is an especially prevalent condition in kidney transplant recipients, with one study showing that 35% of recipients had at least one episode of AKI (see Palmisiano et. al). These injury events lead to worsening kidney...

Published: 5/10/2024 | Inventor(s): Hamid Rabb, Barbara Slusher, Jonathan Powell, Kyungho Lee, Elizabeth Thompson, Sanjeev Noel, Sepideh Gharaie

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Therapeutic Modalities > Small Molecules, Clinical and Disease Specializations > Nephrology

Immune cell metabolic profiling to quantify immunosuppression

Unmet Need / Invention Novelty: Treatment with immunosuppressionis required for patients who have undergone solid organ transplantation or who have autoimmune diseases but no standard test exists that can sensitively measure immune cells for the extent of suppression. There is a critical need for a sensitive approach that can quantify the degree of...

Published: 5/10/2024 | Inventor(s): Andrea Lynn Cox, Elizabeth Thompson, Justin Bailey, Katherine Cascino

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Category(s): Clinical and Disease Specializations > Immunology, Clinical and Disease Specializations > Transplantation