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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Affomix would like to commercialize antibody chips to enable researchers to study the human proteome. Currently, researchers use gene chips as a surrogate means to estimate the concentration of the vast variety of pro teins in cells and tissues. But given the choice, most researchers would prefer to study the proteins directly because of the; i) poor correla ...

Recent materials development together with an improving understanding of organic transistors has enabled solution-processed materials that show good performance, with high transparency in the visible range. In this program, leveraging on our extensive experience in organic material development and large scale organic material deposition by solution based processing, AGILTRON and Stanford Universit ...

Decades of exponential advancement in computer capabilities have transformed the world, from toddlers’ playthings to the technologies of war and peace. Some further advances are constrained by the limits of von Neumann machines; in particular, they do not learn well. Aptima proposes to conduct a feasibility study to design “UBER-HEB,” a non-von Neumann hierarchical universal learning system. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Schizophrenia affects approximately 3 million people in the US, and it is one of the leading causes of disability. Currently available drugs are only partially effective, particularly for the cognitive impairments that contribute to functional loss. A new investigational drug, BMD-101, has been shown to have neuroprotective, neurotrophic, cholinergic, and dopa ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 60,000 prosthetic grafts, which are comprised of either polyethylene terephthalate (polyester) or expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE), are implanted in the United States each year. Medium (6-8mm) and small (l t5mm) internal diameter (I.D.) prosthetic arterial grafts continue to have unacceptably high failure rates when used in the clinical setting. T ...

Reasoning under uncertainty is a critical capability for systems that support intelligent decision making in defense applications. Probability theory is a sound, widely accepted basis for reasoning under uncertainty. The environments in which decisions are made are rich and complex. Logical languages are powerful and expressive, providing the capability for making general statements and describing ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Patient-specific therapies targeted to the phenotype of individual tumors represent the future of cancer treatment. The prototypes for this type of therapy are Herceptin and Tamoxifen, which are only given to patients e xpressing a particular level of HER2 and estrogen receptor (ER), respectively. It is likely that dozens of such therapies will be developed for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We seek in this proposal to develop a tick vaccine to block tick feeding and pathogen transmission to the vertebrate host. Ticks can harbor bacterial, viral and protozoan pathogens and infected ticks transmit pathogens to the mammalian host during feeding, causing human and cattle disease worldwide. Ixodid ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods that feed ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Occupational exposures are estimated to account for 9-15% of adult asthma cases. Among the most common causes of occupational asthma are isocyanates, reactive chemicals necessary to make polyurethane products (construct ion, automotive, military, medical, foam, coatings, adhesives). Millions of people are currently employed in industries that utilize isocyanate ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal addresses a need for an improved technology for early cancer detection and rapid screening. Recent advances in nanotechnology and high resolution imaging have led to the development of new investigative t ools capable of probing biological tissues at the cellular level. These tools can be used to localize abnormal neoplastic cells and expedite th ...