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Summary Breast cancer is the second most common and the major cause of cancer related death of women in the USA The last decade has witnessed major advancement of therapeutic drugs and tools while noninvasive diagnostic imaging tools to measure interventions received much less attention Currently the mainstay of noninvasive imaging in breast cancer relies primarily on anatomic imaging Metabol ...

Project Summary Abstract Multiple Myeloma MM is the second most common form of blood cancer and remains an incurable and deadly disease Proteasome inhibitor PI therapy is a cornerstone in the treatment of MM but resistance to this class of agent is an emerging challenge in the clinic New therapeutic approaches that specifically target resistance are needed to maximize responses and ultimate ...

Alzheimer s Disease AD is the most common form of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the US More than million people in the US currently have AD and the direct health care cost is over $ billion per year Detection of early phase of AD namely Mild Cognitive Impairment MCI can delay prevent and treat this serious disease The project will develop a clinically feasible sy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant st Playable Productions and Union College propose to develop a commercializable product combining physical exercise and cognitive activities through interactive gaming on a stationary bicycle to help prevent cognitive decline and dementia in older adults The Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System iPACES developed by Union Collegeandapos s Health ...

Lack of recruitment of qualified research participants into clinical trials remains to be one of the most important issues in clinical research Studies often struggle to meet recruitment goals on time resulting in costly time extensions underpowered results and in some cases early termination Many reasons attribute to suboptimal recruitment including the challenges related to informing and c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low cost point of care mobile device based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos s murmur the most common innocent benign and harmless heart murmur of childhood This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over a million children unnecessarily referred to pedia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a novel device for respiratory therapy that uses interactive gaming and music to encourage patient compliance In order to maintain pulmonary health many post operative surgery patients as well as people with quadriplegia and other spinal cord injuries high level motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosi ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantProteolytic Imaging of Remodeling Myocardium Abstract Heart attacksi emyocardial infarction or MIoccur in more thanmillion patients annuallyAdvances in interventional and pharmacological therapies have dramatically improved survival following the initial MIand patients are often surviving acute MI with more extensive myocardial injuryConsequentlythe number of patien ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Aminoglycosides are one of the cheapest and well known antibiotics in clinical use for over years but one of the major limitations in their use is their ototoxicity We are developing fast and low cost methods to develop aminoglycosides with anti ribosomal activities and reduced toxicity In this project we will identify novel aminoglycoside antibacterials that show reduced ...

A NEW HOLOGRAPHIC D CAMERA FOR FUNDUS IMAGING Abstract In the United States retinal disease is the most common cause of visual impairment with age related macular degeneration AMD and diabetic retinopathy DR being the most common retinal diseases For each of the above conditions high resolution and three dimensional D imaging of the retina retinal vasculature choroid and or retinal ...