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Novel Safe Potent Single Vector Platform Vaccines Against Melioidosis (UCLA Case No. 2023-119)

UCLA researchers in the School of Medicine have developed a novel single-vector platform vaccine for preventing melioidosis, an infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. BACKGROUND: Melioidosis, also known as Whitmore’s disease, is an infectious disease that can infect both humans and animals. The bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp)...

Published: 2/14/2025 | Inventor(s): Marcus Horwitz

Keywords(s): Burkholderia pseudomallei, Intracellular Pathogens, Live attenuated vaccine, Melioidosis, Pathogen, Select Agents, Tier 1 Diseases, Vaccines

Category(s): Therapeutics > Infectious Diseases

Swabseq Agnostic Diagnostic Platform (Case No. 2023-293)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Departments of Computer Science and Anatomic Pathology have developed an untargeted NGS diagnostic tool capable of detecting all known and emerging respiratory RNA viruses in a single test, enhancing our capacity to rapidly address public health crises through improved diagnostics. Background: Most clinical diagnostic...

Published: 3/20/2025 | Inventor(s): Eleazar Eskin, Valerie Arboleda

Keywords(s): agnostic detection, Bioinformatics, bioinformatics pipeline, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Diagnostic Markers & Platforms, Diagnostic Test, DNA Sequencing, Medical diagnostics, metagenomic diagnostic platform, meta-genomics, next generation sequencing (NGS), Pathogen, Pathogenesis, Sequencing

Category(s): Platforms, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Diagnostic Markers > Targets And Assays, Software & Algorithms, Software & Algorithms > Digital Health, Software & Algorithms > Bioinformatics