High resolution superficially porous materials for native protein separations

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R43GM140789
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Obligated
$839,046

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93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training
Completion date
Funding
  • $559,364.00 Federal
  • $279,682.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Delaware, USA

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Abstract
Life sciences research and other critical bioanalytical applications would strongly benefit from faster and higher resolution high performance liquid chromatographic (hplc) separations of larger molecules including proteins, peptides, glycopeptides, and glycans. Proteins therapeutics are complex molecules, susceptible to intended or unintended alterations of composition and conformation. Many therapeutic proteins are inherently a mixture of closely related variants. Current practice is to employ hplc to resolve and quantify the components such protein mixtures, to assure identity and safety of the protein drug. Many hplc separations of proteins are limited in resolution of protein mixtures, require an hour or more, and may not completely resolve all of the components. Due to the complexity of samples, there are many examples in the current research literature that combine multiple hplc analyses to gain full details on protein composition, and to measure the levels of protein variants, both during development of the drug, as well as manufacture and quality assurance/quality control. Regardless of the intended use of the quantitative information, high efficiency LC separations are a fundamental part of the analytical systems, and the time to achieve high resolution separations of protein samples is a great bottleneck. This proposal describes an approach to improve the separation efficiency of hplc for protein analysis by extending the use of novel superficially porous particle (SPP) technologies with optimized characteristics, providing significantly faster and higher resolution separations of proteins in the native state. Our objectives are to create SPP silica particles, specifically design for use in conditions that maintain intact native structures, optimize the materials properties, and to load these materials efficiently into hplc column formats. The proposed work will extend recent breakthroughs in material science that yield authentic improvements in current materials, seeking to employ the technology in additional native modes of hplc operation, including hydrophobic interaction and ION exchange. The goals of the proposed work would yield very high performance chromatographic products, greater than those currently available, to be applied broadly in analysis of proteins, particularly for protein therapeutics. The application of the technology is not limited to biopharmaceutical preparations, and, in fact, would benefit any current application that uses hplc methods for larger biological molecule analyses. The separations technology described will directly lead to useful products for which there is a significant technical and market demand.

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Who received award R43GM140789?

R43GM140789 was awarded to Advanced Materials Technology, Inc. by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes of Health) on April 1, 2021.

How much is award R43GM140789 worth?

$839,046 has been obligated on R43GM140789: $559,364 in federal funding and $279,682 in non-federal funding.

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