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PROJECT SUMMARY Actively involving informal caregivers in direct patient care at the bedside in the intensive care unit (ICU) has the potential to improve patient, informal caregiver, and health care system outcomes. Practice guidelines call for the liberal inclusion of informal caregivers as active partners in ICU care, but there is a critical, unmet need to develop tools that effectively operati ...

Infection with the bacterium C. difficile is the most common and increasingly prevalent cause of diarrhea. In the United States, cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) are estimated to number 500,000 annually and to result in an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 deaths. The cost of these cases is thought to exceed $4.8 billion annually. CDI continues to cause discomfort, serious illness and sometimes deat ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Although the ubiquity of metabolic problems in pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been known for more than a decade, a wealth of new details on the nature of this problem presents the opportunity for intervention. A combination of experimental work in cells and animals and early trials in humans, suggests that these metabolic problems are part of the causation for PH, and that inactiv ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Continuum Educational Technologies’ (Continuum) will work with the University of Kansas (KU) on the proposed I-RED program entitled Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) program to stimulate technological innovation in the IDeA state regions by addressing the entrepreneurial educational needs o ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Continuum Educational Technologies’ (Continuum) will work with the University of Kansas (KU) on the proposed I-RED program entitled Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) program to stimulate technological innovation in the IDeA state regions by addressing the entrepreneurial educational needs o ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cancer immunotherapy activates the host immune system to seek and destroy cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors block immunosuppressive signals, thereby ‘releasing the brakes’ of the immune system. Solid tumors, however, typically do not respond well to checkpoint inhibitors. They are only effective in the 20-30% patients with an already immunologically ‘hot’ tumor. ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: There is currently a technological gap in high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) that has stunted the efficacy of single-fraction HDR-BT monotherapy for prostate cancer patients and is preventing a shift away from invasive interstitial brachytherapy to an intracavitary-only approach for cervical cancer patients. The gap is due to the radiation dose conformity limitations o ...

SUMMARY: Many cancers are recognized to have an inflammatory etiology. Gastric cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, is the prototype- it is caused by infection with the bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori in 90% of cases. For colorectal cancer (CRC), the second leading cause of cancer deaths, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a frequent precursor lesion. This STTR Phase ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Although the ubiquity of metabolic problems in pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been known for more than a decade, a wealth of new details on the nature of this problem presents the opportunity for intervention. A combination of experimental work in cells and animals and early trials in humans, suggests that these metabolic problems are part of the causation for PH, and that inactiv ...

In 2020 alone, pancreatic cancer is estimated to have resulted in 47,050 deaths in the U.S. making it the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) makes up greater than 90% of all pancreatic cancer diagnoses and has an overall five-year survival rate of just 10%. New therapeutic options are needed to improve the poor prognosis for patients with PDAC. Ex ...