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PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal is submitted in direct response to NOT-HD-22-009 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies to Improve Assessments, Interventions, and Outcomes for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [IDD] (R43/R44). Persons of all ages with certain metabolic disorders are at-risk for metabolic crises when a certain metabolite accumulates, whi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY While there are now successful treatment regimens and prevention strategies for people living with HIV/AIDS, the HIV pandemic remains a public health crisis in the United States and worldwide, with nearly 40,000 new infections each year in the US alone. To prevent the spread of HIV in vulnerable populations, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended HIV pre-exposure pro ...

ABSTRACT / PROJECT SUMMARY Stroke affects more than 795,000 patients per year in the US and kills approximately 40,000. Long-term medical care expense for stroke in the US, costs over $34B per year. Large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke accounts for almost 40% of ischemic strokes but causes 95% of mortality and 62% of long-term dependence. Mechanical thrombectomy (MT), or a combination of MT and tPA ...

PROJECT SUMMARY A group of devastating diseases, collectively termed synucleinopathies, affect over 2 million people in the U.S., carry significant morbidity, high mortality and enormous associated health care costs. Synucleinopathies are characterized by the abnormal deposition of a misfolded protein, phosphorylated α−synuclein (P-SYN), within the central and peripheral nervous systems. Synucl ...

Project Summary Ting Therapeutics LLC is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to prevent and treat hearing loss. Cisplatin is one of the most widely used drugs to treat cancers. However, cisplatin therapy causes hearing loss in 40-60% of the patients. To date, no drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for protection from cisplatin-induced hearing loss (CIHL). Most candid ...

Project Summary Toxoplasma gondii (T.gondii), the causative agent for toxoplasmosis, invades host cells through ingestion of uncooked infected meat or contaminated water. T.gondii infects 30% of the world’s population and the current cost of the disease in US itself is estimated to be $3B and rising. Current treatment regimen is effective only against acute infection and has severe side effects. ...

CDK2 inhibitors for protecting hearing loss Ting Therapeutics LLC is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs to prevent and treat hearing loss. Cisplatin is one of the most widely used drugs to treat cancers. However cisplatin anticancer therapy causes high frequency hearing loss in 40-60% of the patients. To date, no drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for protection fr ...

Project Summary This SBIR Phase II project will translate Phase I technical innovations in sensor materials and a prototype device into a fully functional point of care technology for whole blood biomarker monitoring. It will culminate in a complete draft of a 510(k) clearance application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Currently, no commercial FDA cleared point of care device is a ...

Current treatments for asthma, while reducing exacerbations in a subset of patients by focusing on airway inflammation, do not eliminate them. Asthma exacerbations are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in asthma as they can lead to airway injury, lung function decline and death. Exacerbations in more severe asthmatics are of particular concern, as health care costs and lost productivi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Women are at greater life-time risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One potential factor contributing to greater life-time risk of AD is the midlife menopausal endocrine aging transition when multiple AD risk conditions can emerge and which are consistent with prodromal / preclinical features of the disease. While estrogen or hormone therapy administered when menopausal wo ...