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Abstract This Phase II STTR application represents the main research and development effort for an innovative, low cost, magnetic levitation motor specifically designed for neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal cardiac and cardiopulmonary therapies. Our Phase I efforts demonstrated feasibility of a novel magnetic levitation motor enabling contact-free blood pump impeller operation. Contact-free op ...

Recent advances in technology have made possible the treatment of a growing number of structural cardiovascular diseases by catheter based procedures. Atrial septal defects (ASD), ventricular septal defects (VSD), aortic aneurysm, congenital defects and valve disease are all currently being treated with catheter based strategies. These procedures are complex and are prone to device misplacement, e ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Hydrocephalus causes long term neurological problems and patient suffering. Current treatments, most of which involve surgical diversion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with shunt catheters, fail at an alarming rate. Approximately 98% of all shunts fail within 10 years, and this failure rate is the dominant contributor to the $2 billion-per-year cost that hydrocephalus incurs on our h ...

Project Summary/Abstract Every year, approximately 1,200 severe mistreatments happen in radiation therapy. Radiation therapy lawsuits rank in the top third of all medical specialties with an average of $313,000 per claim settled or litigated. The current method for detecting treatment errors is by a weekly patient chart check, where each treatment record is manually reviewed on a weekly basis. Thi ...

Project summary IND enabling development of LGM2605 as adjuvant treatment for asthma Glucocorticoid resistance is a major treatment problem in asthma. Our recent studies in mice, non-human primates and severe asthma patients, along with reports by others suggest that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression was impaired by psychosocial stress, in association with enhanced NF-kB activation and gluco ...

ABSTRACT Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias are increasing rapidly yet, remarkably, there are no approved disease modifying drugs. Virtually all trials targeting amyloid related pathways have failed over the last 10 years. Regrettably, few alternative targets or pathways have been explored. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore alternative pathways as monotherapies or as cons ...

ABSTRACT This Phase II SBIR proposal leverages the progress made in Phase I on the development of a novel contrast mixture enhanced Tweighted MRI technique as a safesensitiveand objective diagnostic test for the increased permeability in the luminal surface of the urinary bladder in Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain SyndromeIC BPSpatientsThe purpose of having such a test is ultimately to allow cl ...

Abstract In 2015, 1,658,370 new cancer cases are estimated to occur in the US, where nearly two-thirds will have radiation therapy (RT). Given that there are over 2,300 RT centers in the US, and current systems for contouring organs at risk (OARs) rely mostly on manual methods, there is a strong commercial opportunity for producing a software system that can contour OARs in medical images at a hig ...

AbstractProject Summary Cognition Therapeutics IncsCogrxmission is to develop effective therapeutics for Alzheimer s diseaseADOligomers of the brain protein Amyloid betaA Oshave been identified as toxic components that are involved with disease progressionCognition has identified a subset of sigmareceptor binding modulators that displaces A Os from synaptic receptor sites and clears them into the ...

Abstract HIV disproportionately impacts minority adolescentsand most of them have neither undergone HIV testing and counselingHTCnor know their statusAdolescence is a "window of opportunity" to intervene with HIV behavior change interventionsChallenges to implementing and disseminating some effective HIV prevention programs in adolescents may limit their impactTo address these challengesinnovative ...