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PROJECT SUMMARY Sarya LLC (Sarya) is a nuclear medicine technology company formed to commercialize radiopharmaceuticals. The goal of this Fast-Track STTR is to develop a new specific imaging agent for diagnosis, staging, and treatment of the hematological cancer, multiple myeloma (MM). MM is the 2nd most common blood cancer with an estimated 32,000 new cases and 13,000 deaths per year. Accurate de ...

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is the predominant neurodegenerative disease of aging. Recent animal studies have demonstrated that the earliest cochlear pathology due to noise and aging involves a loss of the inner hair cell ribbon synapse. The early consequences of this synaptic loss are not believed to affect hearing sensitivity, but rather, impair speech understanding in background noise. Whil ...

PROJECT SUMMARYLoss of functional mobility associated with aging is the leading cause of dangerous falls and loss of living independence. Approximately 60% of community-residing individuals rt80 years-old have a gait disorder, and abnormal gait patterns are associated with a greater than two-fold increased risk of institutionalization and death in comparison to age-related adults without gait impa ...

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 Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a major side effect of oxaliplatin, a key drug in 1st line regimens for treating colorectal cancer. Dose-limiting CIPN prevents rt25% of patients from receiving full, maximally effective dose of oxaliplatin. In addition, 10-40% of patients receiving oxaliplatin-based therapy for colorectal cancer with develop chronic C ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT More people die every year from kidney disease than breast or prostate cancer. Kidney transplantation is life-saving, yet the donor organ shortage and high organ discard rate contributes to 13 deaths daily among patients awaiting transplant. The decision to use or discard a donor kidney relies heavily on microscopic quantitation of chronic damage by pathologists. The current standard of c ...

Project Summary/Abstract The proposed technology is an intraoperative kit comprised of a liquid solution which will conjugate gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to tissue grafts within minutes. Tissue grafts, such as those used in ACL reconstruction surgery, rarely achieve 100% graft assimilation, thereby leading to a host of problems. A potential solution is to modify the grafts in order to enhance integ ...

Project Summary Skin is the first line of defense against the outside environment. When the skin barrier is breached by UV irradiation (UVR) or toxic chemicals, living cell layers including epidermal keratinocytes, melanocytes and dermal fibroblasts are subjected to DNA damage. If unrepaired, this damage can lead to photoaging and cutaneous carcinogenesis. In fact, skin cancer is by far the most c ...

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. ...