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Northwestern University

Genhong Cheng

Seth Lederman

David Baltimore

Dean Ho

Erik Pierstorff

Houjin Huang

Aileen Anne Cleary

Mark Chen

Su-Yang Liu

Zheng-Sheng Ye

Edward K Chow

This invention relates, e.g., to a method for inhibiting the growth and/or proliferation and/or infectivity of a virus in a cell, such as a mammalian cell (e.g. for inhibiting entry of the virus into the cell), comprising administering, or causing to be administered, to the cell, 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC) in an amount sufficient to inhibit the growth and/or proliferation and/or infectivity of the vines in the cell. The method can be carried out in vivo or in vitro. Among the viruses that can be inhibited are, e.g., VSV, HSV, MHV68, HCV, HIV, EBOV, RVFV, RSSEV and Nipah virus. In one embodiment of the invention, the 25HC is administered topically, e.g. to a mucosal surface.

Broad antiviral therapy with membrane modifying oxysterols

Disclosed herein are nanofilm coatings for implantable medical devices comprising a diblock or triblock copolymer (PEO-PMMA or PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA, respectively). Such nanofilms, may be used, for example, as amphiphilic supports for therapeutic agents. These materials are conducive towards the formation of active substrates for a suite of biological and medical applications.

Polymer nanofilm coatings

Overexpression of a CRAF1 (CD40 receptor-associated factor 1) gene truncated by 323 to about 414 amino acids at the amino inhibits CD40-mediated cell activation, and is used to treat conditions characterized by an unwanted level of CD40-mediated intracellular signaling.

Truncated CRAF1 inhibits CD40 signaling

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