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With a Phase I/II STTR grant award from NIA, BioSensics in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) successfully developed and commercialized an advanced physical activity monitoring system (PAMSys™) for older adults. PAMSys enables continuous remote monitoring of physical activity, fall risk, and fall incidents. The fall detection technology of PAMSys has become the gold standard in ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In the United States, nearly 100,000 patients receive general anesthesia and sedation daily to safely undergo surgical and non-surgical procedures. A high proportion of these patients are older than 65 years of age. These older patients are at higher risk of post-operative delirium and cognitive dysfunction. Many of these older patients have dementia, including mild cognitive impai ...

Project Summary Exercise-based interventions have been recently shown to have great potential for preserving and restoring cognitive function in older adults. In this context, Tai Chi has gained the interest of researchers and clinicians because it incorporates physical, cognitive, social, and meditative components within the same activity. Such multimodal exercise modality is expected to have a p ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Foot disease complications seriously impact lives of people with Type 1 diabetes. A quantitative method to evaluate efficacy of therapy, or better, to define tissue at risk & prevent initial ulcer formation would be highly beneficial. HYPERMED'S long-term objective is to reduce frequency of foot ulcers & amputation by developing Foot HyperSpectral Imaging (FHSI ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Multiple sclerosis MS is a chronic demyelinating inflammatory disease that is the most common neurological disease of young adults affecting over patients in the US and over million patients worldwide MS is a disease of high unmet medical need currently treatable with one of twelve FDA approved drugs all of which result in either significant i ...

ABSTRACTThe United States is experiencing a public health crisis on a massive scale due to the number of people with dementia, lack of cures, and challenges associated with caregiving for this population.1,2 until cures for the dementias are discovered, new technologies and interventions are imperative that can reduce the stress and emotional burden of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Phase II STTR program is to develop a high-throughput, ultra-sensitive accelerator mass spectrometer for the detection and quantification of tritium in labeled biological molecules. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a highly selective means for detecting tritium that can achieve a measurement sensitivity over 1000 times greater than decay ...

Theranano LLC in collaboration with internationally renowned prostate brachytherapy clinicians at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute and biomaterials experts at Northeastern University have developed an innovative combinatorial treatment strategy of Local ChemoRadiation Therapy (LCRT) using a modified brachytherapy spacer platform in the form of a INCeRT (ImplaNts for Che ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer and represents a targetable vulnerability yet is underdeveloped as a therapeutic area The central goal of this Phase program is to complete the early preclinical development of a new class of new cancer therapeutics that uniquely target RAD delivering effective cancer cell selective therapy in subsets of bioma ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In light of the opioid crises, minimizing postoperative pain and postoperative opioid requirements to reduce chronic opioid dependency among surgical patients have become major concerns for surgeons and anesthesiologists. Effective intraoperative nociception control can mitigate these concerns. Unfortunately, existing nociceptive monitoring tools use indicators that are inherently ...