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EPA Tier 3 emissions standards

The EPA Tier 3 emissions standards, promulgated in 2014, tighten tailpipe and evaporative emission limits for new vehicles and cut gasoline sulfur to 10 ppm from 2017.

Oct 20, 2026

Epacadostat

Epacadostat (INCB024360) is Incyte's oral IDO1 inhibitor for cancer immunotherapy. Its phase 3 melanoma trial ECHO-301/KEYNOTE-252 showed no benefit over pembrolizumab alone, halting most development.

Epact

An epact is the age of the Moon in days on the first day of the calendar year, used since antiquity to calculate the date of Easter.

Epafipase

Epafipase (rPAF-AH, Pafase), INN 8012, CAS 208576-22-1, is investigational recombinant human platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase that inactivates PAF; its phase III sepsis trial failed to reduce mortality.

Epalrestat

Epalrestat (エパルレスタット), brand Kinedak, is an oral aldose reductase inhibitor developed by Ono Pharmaceutical for diabetic peripheral neuropathy; approved in Japan in 1992, it is the only marketed ARI, used in Japan, India, and China.

EPAM Systems

EPAM Systems is an American IT services company headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, founded in Minsk in 1993 by Arkadiy Dobkin, providing software engineering, cloud, and AI-enabled services to large enterprises.

Oct 22, 2026

Epameinondas Deligeorgis

Epameinondas Deligeorgis (Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγεώργης, 1829–1879) was a Greek lawyer and liberal politician who served six times as Prime Minister of Greece, first taking office at age 36 in 1865.

Epaminondas

Epaminondas is Robert Abbott's 1975 two-player abstract strategy board game, also known as Crossings, played on a 14x12 board with 28 pieces per side; phalanxes move and capture as units, and the goal is occupying the opponent's home row.

Sep 23, 2026

Epang Palace

Epang Palace (阿房宫) was the ceremonial court palace that China's First Emperor ordered built south of the Wei River in 212 BC, but it was never completed.

EPaNIC trial

EPaNIC (Early Parenteral Nutrition Completing Enteral Nutrition in Adult Critically Ill Patients), NCT00512122, was a 4640-patient randomized trial showing that withholding parenteral nutrition until ICU day 8 reduced infections, ventilation, and costs versus early PN without a mortality penalty.

Oct 20, 2026

Epaone

Epaone (Épaone, vicus Eppaonis) was a Burgundian ecclesiastical site, probably Saint-Romain-d'Albon, Drôme, France, where the Council of Epaone of 517 under Avitus of Vienne issued forty canons.

Epaphus Mensa

Epaphus Mensa is a 126-km flat-topped mountain (mensa) on Jupiter's moon Io, centered at 53.05S, 239.95W; IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the mythological son of Io and Zeus.

Eparchía Chalkidikís

Eparchía Chalkidikís (Επαρχία Χαλκιδικής), Province of Chalkidiki, was a province of Chalkidiki Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece, alongside Eparchía Arnaías; abolished with the 2010 Kallikratis reform, now within the Regional Unit of Chalkidiki.

Eparchía Trichonídas

Eparchía Trichonídas (Επαρχία Τριχωνίδας), a former province of Aetolia-Acarnania in West Greece around Lake Trichonida, Greece's largest natural lake; a historical administrative division with seat at Agrinio, now abolished.

EPAS1

EPAS1, also called HIF2A, encodes HIF-2α, the main erythropoietin regulator. Gain-of-function mutations cause familial erythrocytosis (ECYT4) and mosaic Pacak-Zhuang syndrome; a Denisovan-derived haplotype aids Tibetan high-altitude adaptation.

Sep 19, 2026

Epassi

Epassi is a Finnish fintech company, founded in 2007, providing a digital platform for non-taxable employee benefits, serving over 50,000 employers in ten European countries.

Epaulette

An epaulette (épaulette) is a fringed ornamental shoulder strap worn on military or civil uniforms to show rank. Originating in France, it was adopted by the British army (1768) and navy (1795) and US services (1780 onward), later replaced by shoulder straps and boards on non-dress uniforms.

EPB (Chattanooga)

EPB, formally the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, is a municipally owned utility providing electric power and fiber internet, known as America's first "Gig City."

EPB41

EPB41 (protein 4.1, 4.1R, band 4.1) is a human chromosome 1p35.3 gene encoding a FERM-domain cytoskeletal protein that anchors spectrin-actin to the red cell membrane; mutations cause hereditary elliptocytosis type 1.

EPB41L3

EPB41L3 (aliases 4.1B, DAL-1/DAL1) is a human tumor-suppressor gene at 18p11.31 encoding protein 4.1B, a FERM-domain cytoskeletal anchor; its loss by methylation or LOH occurs in ovarian, gastric, lung, breast, and other cancers.

EPCAM

EPCAM (EpCAM, CD326, TACSTD1) is a human protein-coding gene encoding a 314-aa type I transmembrane epithelial adhesion glycoprotein, overexpressed in carcinomas, targeted by immunotherapy, mutated in congenital tufting enteropathy and Lynch syndrome.

EPCC (supercomputing centre)

EPCC, formally the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, is a supercomputing center at the University of Edinburgh, designated the UK's first National Supercomputing Centre in 2025.

EPCglobal

EPCglobal was a not-for-profit GS1 initiative, established in 2003 from the MIT Auto-ID Center, best known for the EPC Gen2 RFID air interface standard and EPCIS.

EPCOR

EPCOR is a Canadian utility company, created by the City of Edmonton in 1995, that builds and operates electricity, gas, and water networks across Canada and the United States.

Sep 29, 2026

Epcoritamab regimen

The Epcoritamab regimen (Epkinly, Tepkinly) treats relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphoma with a subcutaneous CD3×CD20 bispecific antibody that engages T cells to kill lymphoma cells, FDA approved in 2023.

Epcot

Epcot is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, opened October 1, 1982 as EPCOT Center, the second Disney park there. It features Spaceship Earth, four neighborhoods, and 11 World Showcase country pavilions.

EPCOT (concept)

EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, was Walt Disney's 1966 plan for a 20,000-resident experimental city in Florida with a radial layout, enclosed center, and monorail transit; it was never built and became a theme park in 1982.

EPCR Challenge Cup

EPCR Challenge Cup: Europe's second-tier rugby union club competition, run by EPCR since 1996/97 beneath the Investec Champions Cup. Montpellier, Clermont, and Harlequins hold three titles each; Montpellier won the 2026 final 59-26 over Ulster in Bilbao.