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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/ABSTRACT With the increased use of mobile health (mHealth) apps to improve health outcomes, protecting private health data is becoming increasingly important. These mHealth apps are offered by healthcare providers and used by patients for various reasons such as paying bills, scheduling appointments, sending messages to providers, accessing lab results, and viewing prescriptions an ...

Project Summary Pre-clinical and pre-field toxicology testing of new drugs and chemicals does not routinely include direct assessment of human developmental neurotoxicity (DNT). Current standards for DNT testing require use of animal models with limited throughput and significant differences from human central nervous system (CNS) development. As such, many chemical products have required post-app ...

Pediatric limb loss, although relatively infrequent compared to adults, results in substantial hardship for children and their families. The principal business interest? iFIT Prosthetics, LLC®? successfully developed and manufactured innovative, fully adjustable, transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic devices, and demonstrated their safety, comfort, and functionality in adults. Made of injection ...

Project Abstract/Summary Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) deficiency (PDCD) is a rare disease of mitochondrial energy failure in which the life expectancy of affected children is severely truncated from unrelenting lactic acidosis and/or from progressive neurological and neuromuscular degeneration. Treatment of PDCD remains a serious, unmet, challenge. Dichloroacetate (DCA) represents the firs ...

ABSTRACTUp to 30% of low birth weight preterm infants manifest some form of periventricular white matter injury (PWMI) making it the most common form of brain injury affecting premature infants. PWMI is associated with significant morbidity, as affected individuals may have profound intellectual impairment and cerebral palsy. Highlighting the magnitude of PWMI, each year more than 400,000 infants ...

Neurodon LLC proposes to conduct lead optimization and candidate-seeking activities on a novel series of neuroprotective small molecules that shows efficacy in a transgenic model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is a leading cause of death in the United States, with some estimates ranking it as high as third behind cardiovascular disease and cancer. Despite the enormity of this national public he ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemical risk assessment is widely applied in industries and regulatory agencies as an important tool to evaluate chemical toxicity in support of chemical registration, safety evaluation, and exposure limitation development. One of the most notable improvements in dose-response assessment - a required quantitative step in risk assessment - is the development of benchmark dose (BMD) ...

Project Summary The goal of this project is to commercialize a wireless, wearable system to estimate the tension in superficial tendons throughout the limbs during dynamic movements. Tendon tension provides an estimate of muscle force, which is important information for understanding biomechanical behavior in all types of movement. Understanding muscle-tendon function inside the body is especially ...

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 ...