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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 ...

AbstractLung diseases ranging from cancer to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affect large numbers of men and women worldwide each year. Current news reports describe the respiratory impact of COVID-19; likewise, the past year has seen extensive coverage of the respiratory problems caused by vaping. Worldwide, lung diseases of all types result in millions of deaths per year at a stagge ...

SUMMARY Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary tumor of the CNS with limited treatment options and a poor clinical prognosis. Standard of care treatment, including surgical resection, radiation therapy and concurrent temozolomide (TMZ) treatment followed by adjuvant TMZ, produces a median survival in newly diagnosed GBM of ~15 months. Tumor recurrence happens due to therapy resistant tumor ...

Glioblastomas are very aggressive tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) with a median patient survival of about 16 months. Therapeutic options for glioblastoma patients are very limited mostly because the majority of potential anti-cancer drugs do not cross the blood brain barrier (BBB). In addition, recently tested immunotherapies including immune checkpoint inhibitors, tumor vaccines, and a ...

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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a leading cause of dementia, yet no effective therapeutic intervention is available for those in prodromal and early stages of AD. Restoration of functional and cognitive resilience in early disease stages is especially beneficial in many aspects as it could substantially extend the period of quality of life and delay the clinical onset of AD. ...

PROJECT SUMMARY BioAesthetics is developing a novel acellular graft for improved burn wound healing. Our patent- pending drug-loaded, polymer-integrated acellular biologic graft (PCT/US19/25306) will act as a barrier to pathogens, deliver anti-infectives to the wound site during healing, and provide an optimal regenerative scaffold. This will allow for a single-stage wound reconstruction, without ...