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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significant progress has been made in the science of electrocardiography since 1938. Heart rate and biophysical profiles are routinely derived from multi-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) in animals and humans after birth. In contrast, only limited heart monitoring technologies exist for the fetus. Moreover, available technology fails to satisfy many existing need ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Back pain afflicts over 75% of Americans during their lifetime and 2% of the American work force suffers a back injury on the job each year. Spinal fusion is the orthopedic procedure routinely used to treat back pain in patients suffering from degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, and spinal fracture; however, procedure failure rates range betw ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goals of this proposed Phase 2 STTR project are to further develop and test the online distance learning system and courses that we developed in Phase 1 to teach health care professionals to provide low vision rehabilitation services. The first aim is to develop and test interactive online lectures. Online lectures will have hyperlinks in the slides that wi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop a general method of improving the stability and durability of enzymes used in DNA and RNA amplification, sequencing, restriction analysis and ligation. The enzymes to be improved include DNA polymerases, topoisomerases, reverse transcriptases and ligases. In the event this goal can be achieved, broad impacts may result in ...

Loss of vestibular hair cells can occur due to a variety of disorders and results in dysfunction of the vestibulo-occular reflex and loss of balance. Bilateral vestibular hypofunction due to aminoglycoside ototoxicity and other means is a devastating and currently untreatable chronic disorder because loss of vestibular hair cells is permanent. To date there is no prosthetic device such as a hearin ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Efficiency of hemodialysis is currently limited by dialyzer technology. Although new membranes with large surface areas have been developed, the increase in delivered treatment is only marginal. Double dialyzer therapies have been shown to be superior to standard high efficiency/ high flux dialysis treatments; however implementation of double dialyzer therapi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetic bladder dysfunction (DBD) or diabetic cystopathy is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) affecting well over 50% of the patients with either type I or type II diabetes. DBD could affect both the filling and voiding function of the bladder leading to urinary incontinence, poor emptying, high post void residual ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is a serious medical condition that affects approximately 1-3% of reproductive age women. At present, there is no FDA approved treatment for RSA. We hypothesize that failure to suppress Th1 cytokine production early in pregnancy is a major cause of RSA. We hypothesize that recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating fa ...

Project Summary Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is recognized as the single most important viral cause of acute respiratory disease in infants and young children worldwide. Elderly populations and immunocompromised individuals are also at significant risk for serious RSV disease. Despite this very substantial disease burden imposed by RSV worldwide, there are no vaccines available. Severa ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with some sub-types remaining essentially untreatable, expansion of available drug targets will provide significant new options for the development ofmore effective antineoplastic agents. The major goal of this project is to apply a unique drug discovery strategy to cancer drug development. Th ...