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Project Summary: Over 1.5 million Americans suffer from type 1 diabetes (T1D), an autoimmune disorder involving insulin, a hormone that is essential for blood glucose regulation and overall energy metabolism. When first diagnosed with T1D, it is estimated that the patient’s insulin has been reduced by 70-90%. By this point, the immune system has already targeted and destroyed a vast majority of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Becoming a mother is a significant transition in a woman's life. This transition can precipitate major changes in health behaviors, like physical activity. Once a woman has a child she is much less likely to participate in regular, moderate to vigorous physical activity compared to women without children. Thus, new mothers are at risk for future weight gain and ...

Internet-based TRAC (i-TRAC): Interactive Emotion Regulation Skills Training to Improve AdolescentSexual Health Adolescence is a critical developmental period during which behavioral patterns are formed that have powerful influences on current and future health. This is particularly true for sexual behavior, which is affected by the biological changes of puberty as well as normative developmental ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past twenty-five years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of children and adolescents presenting to emergency departments (EDs) for psychiatric issues. Given that youth mental health issues account for 1.6% - 5.0% of all ED visits, and that Emergency Medicine physicians are the first to interact with these youth, the assessment of psychiatric i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a resubmission of a Phase II proposal, 2R42CA124191-02, which received a priority score of 181, to develop a tissue-based genetic test for BRCA2 hereditary ovarian cancer. Six percent of unselected US ovarian cancers are BRCA2 hereditary cancers with truncating mutations in the BRCA2 gene. It is important to know which ovarian cancer patients have BRCA ...

Abstract Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a type of extra-nodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma characterized by skinlesions resulting from infiltration of malignant T lymphocytes. Mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome are thetwo most common types of CTCL. Although treatments exist, they are mainly palliative with low response anddurability of response without any cure. The objective response rate rem ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This is a resubmission of a Phase I Phase II Fast Track application for the clinical use of MultiStem in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS ARDS is defined as acute onset hypoxemia bilateral radiographic pulmonary infiltrates and lack of atrial pressure hypertension A novel and exiting possibility is the use of cells as part of the ther ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Columbus NanoWorks (CNW) proposes research leading to the commercialization of custom magnetic nanoparticle reagents for the detection of cancer cells from various sources such as bone marrow and peripheral blood. Cell separation is becoming increasingly commonplace for researchers and clinicians who isolate rare cells from complex cell populations to un ...

Compatibility between Brain-Computer Interface and High Efficiency Augmentative and AlternativeCommunication Systems: Phase II ABSTRACT Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) enable text production for people who cannot move, but have only simple communication interfaces and are not widely used. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems are widely used and give efficient and precise commun ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The field of cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) surgery involves the correction of congenital and acquired deformities of the skull and face. These include dentofacial deformities, congenital deformities, and defects after tumor ablation, post-traumatic defects, and deformities of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). In the United States each year, a significant number o ...