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Future MDA space missions will utilize small spacecraft with correspondingly small, advanced sensor systems. Cooling of these sensors is required to decrease detector noise and increase detector sensitivity by maintaining the detector at a reduced operating temperature. The cooling system comprises a mechanical cryocooler and its control electronics, both of which are critical technologies to enab ...

HealthMyne proposes developing a Clinical Decision Support tool to be used in the point-of-care workflow for the Radiation Oncologist that uses radiomic features that have evidence-based association to disease course and/or normal organ damage, in order to impact the treatment planning process. Phase 1 will focus on extraction, calculation, and validation of identified radiomic features for lung c ...

Project Summary This is a supplementalrenewalgrant to the Phase II SBIR grantComputerized Screening for Comorbidity in Adolescents with Substance or Psychiatric DisordersSince the funding of the Phase I granttwo significant developments occurred in the fieldthe American Psychiatric Association s release of the DSMmanualand NIMH s launch of the Research Domain CriteriaRDoCinitiative that aims to cr ...

Project SummaryAbstract The goal of this Phase I work is to finish development of an innovative interactive app designed to help patients appropriately use total knee replacementTKRsurgery and provide support to achieve best outcomesTKR is highly effective for treating advanced osteoarthritis of the kneebut it has risksAppropriate use can be assured by engaging patients in a Shared Decision Making ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACTMillions of children around the globe are afflicted with conditions that can alter neuropsychological developmentincluding human immunodeficiency virusHIVtraumatic brain injuryTBIcerebral malariaand a host of other developmental and acquired diseases and disordersEarly assessment and intervention are critical in overcoming cognitive and developmental deficiencies and are in ...

Project Summary Despite advances in the field of transplantation that have curbed acute rejection through immunosuppressive drugs and better control of infection and ischemia reperfusion injurychronic allograft rejection is still a major obstacle for successful organ transplantationSuccessful organ transplantation appears to require a balanced function of effector and regulatory T cellsTregto prev ...

Project Summary Abstract Human neural cells manufactured using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cellsiPSCshold great promise for modeling neurodevelopmental disordersdiscovering new precision therapiesand screening for potential risks from environmental toxinsHoweverbiomanufacturing of neural cells and tissues is severely limited by low efficiencypoor reproducibilityand extended timeframes ...

Seasonal influenzafluvirusan NIAID category C priority pathogencauses widespread infectionresulting in at leastmillion cases of severe illness anddeaths worldwideWhile annual vaccination is recommended for all individuals aged overmonths in the UScurrent vaccines are only aroundeffective and there is an urgent need for safemore effective influenza vaccines that offer broad spectrum protectionTo me ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The filovirusesfamily Filoviridaecomprising five ebolavirusesa cuevavirusand two Marburg virusesare negative strand RNA viruses that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with up tohuman case fatality rateTheepidemic in Western Africacaused by the Zaire ebolavirusEBOVspecies demonstrated the potential for these viruses to cause dire health emergencies of global scopeand highlighted the ne ...

ImmuNext has defined an anti MCTmonoclonal antibodymAbthat will be developed for the treatment of human autoimmune diseaseThe membrane monocarboxylate nutrient transporter SLCAMCTis a multi pass transmembrane protein responsible for the facilitated transport of critical metabolitesincluding products of glycolysislactatepyruvate and ketonesOur strong preliminary data support the tenet that mAbs tha ...