Category Archive: Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health

Jun 20

ACS-Institutional Research Grant -Phase II Grant Funded to Mitigate Cardiotoxicity of Chemotherapeutics using our Nanocarriers

Excited that our phase-II proposal to the American Cancer Society’s Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) program was funded. This was upon successful phase I completion of our proposal for a novel magnetically driven drug nanocarrier. We propose to use these drug nanocarriers to mitigate cardiotoxicity in the new study. The data generated by the study funded …

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Sep 26

RIDING TO FIGHT KIDS’ CANCER

This September, I am taking part in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids’ cancer! Only 4% of the billions of dollars the government spends annually on cancer research is directed towards treating childhood cancer. Right now, cancer is the biggest killer of children from disease in the United States. Over 15,700 children are diagnosed …

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Mar 01

Science Outlets are More Actively Promoting Novel Technologies to Address Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic-Stewardship

Excited that our novel approach to tackling antibiotic resistance is gaining well-deserved publicity! We need outside the box thinking to tackle this problem. Juliane Hopf #advanceddoagnosticsandtherapeutics #notredame #antibioticresistance #nanotechnology #nanoscaleadvances  #pdnano #biomimetics #health #nanoparticles #nd https://phys.org/news/2020-01-tackling-antibiotic-resistance-phage-mimicking-antibacterial.html Tackling antibiotic resistance: Phage-mimicking antibacterial core-shell nanoparticles could help by Brandi Wampler, University of Notre Dame Nanoparticle. Credit: P Nallathamby …

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Jan 24

An Interesting Write-up on our Novel Class of Antibacterials to Tackle Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens

According to the World Health Organization, one of the biggest health threats around the world is antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers at Notre Dame are working to combat this problem by developing a nanoparticle-based system. Please check out this press release written by Brandi Wampler, our science communication specialist at Notre Dame Research. https://news.nd.edu/news/new-technology-could-help-tackle-antibiotic-resistance/ The peer-reviewed publication …

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Nov 08

Fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria by skipping anitbiotics

Phage-mimicking antibacterial core–shell nanoparticles. Excited to have started publishing and filing for a patent on our antibiotic-free antimicrobial nanoparticles research. More to come in the following months! Thankful for the support from #notredame #ideacenter #antibioticresistance #ndnano #Advanceddiagnosticsandtherapeutics #ADandT #openaccess The increasing frequency of nosocomial infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microorganisms concurrent with the stagnant discovery of …

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Aug 12

Real Men Wear Pink of Michiana

Here is my fundraising profile for the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. https://www.facebook.com/MichianaRMWP/posts/1321606701327331

Aug 08

Real Men Wear Pink in Michiana to Fight Breast Cancer

DONATE to ACS Online   Why We Wear Pink. Breast cancer affects everyone – it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman. That’s why I’m stepping up to fight breast cancer with all I have. Since I’m in a position to make a difference within my community, I believe I have an obligation …

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Apr 08

Label-Free, Magnetic Nanocarrier based, Precision Combinatorial Chemotherapeutics Treatment Against Metastatic Cancer for Recurrence-Free Survival

╪1,3Margo Waters, ╪1,3Juliane Hopf, 1,3Paul Helquist, 2Vincent Jo Davisson, and 1,3Prakash. D. Nallathamby 1University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame USA; 2Purdue University, Lafayette, USA; 3NDnano, Notre Dame, USA ╪ Equal contributors The leading cause of fatalities in breast cancer is metastasis.1 To increase the success rate of metastasis-free survival, there is a need to tackle …

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Apr 03

Society for Biomaterials – Seattle 2019

I was in Seattle for the week at the Society for Biomaterials 2019 conference. Excited to have data from three projects in four sessions at SFB 2019. Thanks to CTSI-PDT (#CTSI), ACS-IRG(#americancersociety), NDnano, AD&T and HCRI for their crucial support for these projects. 1. Rapid-Fire oral Presentation on Wednesday on April 3, 2019, from 4:05 …

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Feb 14

Center for the Translational Sciences Indiana Awards us Seed Grant for an Innovative Antibiotic Free Nanotherapeutics to Combat Multi-drug Resistant Bacterial Infections

Biomedical research is at risk of losing the antibiotics vs. pathogens arms race. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis are becoming harder and sometimes impossible to treat due to the fast emergence and global spread of new antibiotic resistance. Without urgent action, we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries …

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