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Abstract Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest affects over 350,000 people in the U.S. annually, but only 10.8% survive. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves survival, but rates of training in the U.S. are low. It is recently required by law in 39 U.S. states that high school students learn CPR. However, current methods of teaching CPR use outdated pedagogical strategies and expensive d ...

Project Summary Sialoglycans are sialic acid-containing oligosaccharides that play important biological roles in human biology and pathology and are indispensable molecular probes for research related to bacterial and viral infection, cancer metastasis, immune regulation, etc. The multifaceted functions of sialoglycans in human milk are also being explored. Nevertheless, sialoglycan-related resear ...

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 Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures are estimated to rise by over 300% by the year 2030. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is the most significant complication following TJA with healthcare costs exceeding $1.6 billion annually. Treatment of PJI generally requires surgical intervention combined with a prolonged course of antibiotics costing $50,000 per patient. Despite thi ...

ABSTRACT Advances in molecular biology and genetic engineering have led to the design and use of modified T cells recognize tumors to achieve significant tumor control upon adoptive cell transfer (ACT) to patients. These T cells are either transduced with tumor antigen reactive T cell receptors (TCR), or chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Recently, a surge in studies with neo-antigen reactive T ce ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a degenerative disease of cartilage brought on by traumatic injury to the articular joints. Acute joint injury is followed by severe joint pain and inflammation. This results in much more rapid degeneration of cartilage than in other forms of osteoarthritis, due to the joint instability caused by trauma as well as the increase in pro ...

For more than a decade, our work has focused on development of therapeutic interventions for viral- and bacterial-induced acute lung injury (ALI) and the more severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Significantly, we identified the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling pathway as key to the host response to influenza and secondary bacterial infection following influenza. We also identif ...

ABSTRACT Despite treatment advances, the prognosis of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and R/R diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) remains poor. Autologous T- cells modified to express a CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T-cells) produce durable responses in subgroups of these patients, which has led to FDA approval of two su ...

Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently affects ~6.2 million Americans, and this number is projected to increase to 14 million by 2060 unless novel treatments or interventions to prevent or delay the onset of AD are identified. Harnessing the immune system to prevent or remove Aβ and/or tau pathologies represents a promising disease- modifying therapeutic approach for the tr ...

Project SummaryImpairment in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and a major source of patient and caregiver burden. Similarly to cognitive changes in AD, subtle difficulties in IADL may begin even before the stage of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Recently, greater emphasis has been placed on preclinical AD, which consists ...