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The overall goal of this collaborative project between Neurodon and Indiana University School of Medicine is the development of compounds that will offer disease-modifying treatments for type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) mellitus, a sorely unmet need. In this initial STTR project, we will use our expertise in medicinal chemistry, cell biology, and diabetes pathophysiology to functionally test ...

PROJECT SUMMARY We propose to develop a novel non-contact, label-free multimodality imager that provides real-time intraoperative identification of nerves within the surgical field-of-view to facilitate the prevention of unintended nerve damage (termed iatrogenic nerve injury) during surgical procedures, as they are a major source of postsurgical complications, e.g., chronic pain. In the United St ...

Abstract There is an unmet need to develop treatments for senile osteoporosis, a disorder characterized by an age-related reciprocal decrease in osteogenesis and increase in bone marrow fat. Senile osteoporosis resembles disuse osteopenia, suggesting its pathogenesis involves impaired bone mechanosensing. We discovered that the polycystin heterotrimeric complex (1PC1+3PC2) functions as a mechanose ...

Abstract Hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (hfTC) is a disease in which patients cannot produce the bioactive form of the hormone Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), which is secreted by osteocytes to rid the body of phosphate by acting on the kidney. hfTC is characterized by markedly elevated serum phosphate (Pi) which causes large intramuscular calcifications to develop. The calcifi ...

Project SummaryEpilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders. Current drugs have limited efficacy. Identifying new targeted drugs that can be used as safer, more effective therapies is in urgent unmet need. Selective inhibition of the transient receptor potential canonical 3 (TRPC3) emerges as a novel strategy to impede epilepsy. However, the currently best selective TRPC3 inhibitor, Pyr3, ha ...

Ankle injuries are the second most common musculoskeletal injury in the military with service members being 5x more likely to sustain an ankle injury than the general population making it a leading cause of lost training and combat operation time. Airborn

Electromagnetic Interface (EMI) Shielding is critical for maintenance of critical infrastructure and to prevent from external signals from disrupting electronics devices.  State of the art EMI shielding includes heavy metal-based materials, which add mass

Semiconducting carbon nanotubes (s-CNTs) have been used to build thin, flexible sensors relevant to the DoD mission. These include both physical sensors, such as stress/strain and temperature sensors, and chemical sensors, such as biomarker or toxic compo

AFRL recently completed a project on determining the technical feasibility of new damage tolerance design approaches for composite aircraft structures. However, the average error for blind static strength predictions was 20%, while that for blind fatigue strength predictions was 40%. To realize Air Force’s vision of service life prediction, we need to predict the remaining fatigue life of compos ...

Carbon fiber is now used extensively in military vehicles, structures and equipment, and its use will only expand due to its combination of light weight and high strength. However, the challenge of widespread adoption both in the military and in the comme