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Project Summary As a participant in the new IDeA Regional Entrepreneurship Development (I-RED) program, the goal of this proposal is to create an educational product to promote entrepreneurism and commercialization in the Mountain West region of IDeA states. The educational product and overall program are intended to address the needs of IDeA state academic institutions in developing and strengthe ...

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 ...

There is a growing need to accurately characterize nuclear materials not only for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation treaty verification but also for forensics and provenance. At present, nuclear material identification requires samples to be collected and sent to laboratories for analysis using large and expensive equipment, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) or s ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Low level tumor associated somatic DNA mutations can have profound implications for development of metastasis prognosis choice of treatment follow up or early cancer detection Unless they are effectively detected these low level mutations can misinform patient management decisions or become missed opportunities for personalized medicine Widely used tech ...

Despite significance advances in anti retroviral treatments HIV associated neurocognitive disorder HAND remains prevalent and can affect a broad range of everyday activities An effective brief cognitive screen that could be implemented in busy HIV clinics where clinicians have limited time to provide care for patients with complex medical psychiatric and cognitive conditions has the poten ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Clean water is one of the most basic societal needs in the world Few situations incite more public outcry than when a community learns that their drinking water has been tainted Two of the biggest threats to groundwater quality in the U S are contamination from either chlorinated solvents or petroleum Left unattended the size and scope of the problems asso ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This project aims to improve the accuracy of tests for early tooth decay dental caries specifically for interproximal surfaces where the posterior teeth abut one another In these regions there is no physical space to visually inspect or probe for caries Instead dentists rely on bitewing X rays BWs But dentists cannot tell whether lucencies observed ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The purpose of this Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer STTR project is to complete development and evaluate usability and effectiveness of the Wraparound Team Monitoring System Wrap TMS a web based electronic behavioral health information system EBHIS for the most widely implemented care coordination model in childrenandapos s behavioral healt ...

Aortic aneurysms and dissections are a cause of frequently preventable death for over 13,000 people annually in the US alone. Many more patients live under a constant threat of a catastrophic aortic event from atheroscle- rotic or congenital causes. Therefore, early and comprehensive diagnosis of morphological or dynamic changes in the aorta is of great importance. This STTR proposal extends and t ...