Leaders of the newly-established San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics (SA PPT) have awarded the partnership’s first research grant. A seven-person team researching sepsis-induced organ failure will receive $200,000 in funding over two years. The award’s purpose is to advance research and breakthroughs in precision therapeutics, which is the development of drug therapies for specific populations based on genetics, lifestyle and environment.

Presidents of San Antonio’s four largest research institutions today announced they are providing $800,000, collectively, for a major initiative in precision therapeutics. The process of precision therapeutics ultimately leads to breakthrough treatments that can be individualized to specific patient populations.

Southwest Research Institute has received new funding from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use an SwRI-developed bioreactor to propagate cells for personalized regenerative medicine applications. A $3 million MTEC program will demonstrate stem cell manufacturing, and a $2.3 FDA contract is funding CAR T-cell production.

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $267,870 to develop new technology to lower the cost of artemisinin, the primary drug used to treat malaria.

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Figure 1: Novel SwRI-developed bead-free and perfusion-based, closed-loop T-cell manufacturing system using an SwRI-proprietary 3D bioreactor.

An aligned polymer article including substrates, wherein the substrates are not covalently bonded to the aligned collagen and a method of forming such articles wherein substrates are mixed with a polymer in solution to form a polymer-substrate mixture. The mixture is placed in an electrochemical cell and a voltage is applied to the cell generating a pH gradient, wherein the polymer aligns in the cell and migrates to the isoelectric plane of the polymer solution.

Human performance is defined as physical performance, cognitive performance, and social/organizational performance. This project specifically focused on physical performance. The research team spent a great deal of time with practitioners within the tactical athlete (i.e., U.S.

Background — Vaccination is one of the most effective tools for mitigating the impact of influenza epidemics and pandemics. However, commercially available flu vaccines are in general directed toward the specific strain(s) contained in the vaccine.