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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 ...

Project Summary Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are a growing health problem in our aging population. Assessment of cognitive functioning for early detection is critical to identify individuals who might benefit from treatment with the available symptomatic medications for mild dementia as well as future disease-modifying therapies that are actively under development and being tested i ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a looming public health crisis that threatens millions of patients' ability to experience healthy aging. In addition to the challenges that AD poses to patients, healthcare providers and caregivers, there is also tremendous economic burden associated with AD and related dementias – estimated to be well over $200B/year in the United States alone. Hundre ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and comes with a significant economic burden associated with emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Oxidative stress- mediated secondary injury post-TBI is a considerable risk factor for mortality and long-term impairment. Immediately following TBI, a cascade of biological responses leads to i ...

ABSTRACT This STTR Phase I project uses mixed-method formative evaluation strategies to develop, test, and evaluate an alpha prototype of Breezmed, a point-of-care electronic prior authorization web-based platform. Prior authorization burdens the current medical system, hampering a provider’s ability to efficiently prescribe medication and in a timely fashion. This often leads to treatment non-c ...

STTR_Developing Nanopieces 7. Project Summary/Abstract The bottleneck of developing new RNAi (RNA Interference) drugs is the lack of highly efficient and non-toxic RNA delivery to non-liver tissues in vivo. It is especially challenging to deliver negatively-charged nucleic acid into avascular, dense, and negatively-charged matrix in hard-to-reach tissues including joint cartilage. NanoDe Therapeut ...

Project SummaryNovel High Resolution Scintillation X ray Detectors for Digital Dentistry The transition from traditional film to digital X ray detectors has resulted in significant improvements across many areas for dental X ray imaging ranging from decreased wait timesimproved logistics and even lower radiation dose ratesOne significant drawback remains with digital X ray imaging howeverwhich is ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT SignificanceCell therapy is expected to become an important method to treat chronic diseases such as diabetesrheumatoid arthritisretinal diseases like macular degeneration and certain types of cancersThe cell therapy market in general is projected to become a $billion industry byHuman pluripotent stem cellshPSCsare of particular importance since their utility as a source f ...

Major depressive disorder is a debilitating mood disorder that affects ~7% of US adults in their lifetime, costing the U.S. economy more than $200 billion a year. Drugs that increase monoaminergic signaling are the mainstay of depression therapy, but have a delayed onset of action and are only effective in about 50% of affected patients. Aberrant brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling ...