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PHASE II APPLICATION(STTR Program PAS-22-197) “Phase 1 Trial to Assess Safety and Immune Effects of Xenon Gas in Healthy Human Subjects” ABSTRACTAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders. Emerging evidence shows that homeostatic dysregulation of the brain immune system, especially that orchestrated by microglia, plays a significant role in the onset an ...

Project Summary/Abstract Mutant forms of KRAS are a key driver in human tumors but remain partially refractory to therapeuticintervention. After over three decades of research, only a single inhibitor (sotorasib) targeting a singlemutation (KRASG12C) have reached market. The difficulty for developing small molecule KRAS inhibitorshas heightened the importance of alternative methods targeting the o ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACTHealthcare systems around the world, including within the United States, have long-established shortages of trained caregivers (WHO, 2016; Jones, Liu, Murfield, and Moyle, 2020). The American Health Care Association (2019) states that “the health care system has experienced a shortage of trained caregivers for critical roles for some time.” This scarcity directly impact ...

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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In light of the opioid crises, minimizing postoperative pain and postoperative opioid requirements to reduce chronic opioid dependency among surgical patients have become major concerns for surgeons and anesthesiologists. Effective intraoperative nociception control can mitigate these concerns. Unfortunately, existing nociceptive monitoring tools use indicators that are inherently ...

The event of nuclear explosion generates harsh radiation conditions, evaluation of which is critical in protecting the military and civilian personnel from serious harm.  Due to these harsh conditions only very simple methods of radiation assessment are employed, such as measurement of equivalent dose.  Improvements to current instrumentation are sought that would provide energy resolved dose in ...

Despite prevalent use of anti-platelet and anti-lipid therapies, stroke remains the third major cause of death and is the leading cause of adult disability in the US with an estimated cost in the range of $34 billion annually. Approximately 20% of the annual 795,000 stroke patients die within one year and 15-30% are permanently disabled. Antiplatelet therapy is mainly used for primary prevention o ...

The melanocortin peptide therapeutic setmelanotide, (ImcivreeTM), is highly effective in the treatment of the rare obesity syndromes, POMC and leptin receptor deficiency. However, the drug is ineffective for the most common syndromic obesity, melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency (MC4R haploinsufficiency), found at a prevalence greater than 1/1000 individuals. Further, the drug is ineffective ...

ABSTRACTThe United States is experiencing a public health crisis on a massive scale due to the number of people with dementia, lack of cures, and challenges associated with caregiving for this population.1,2 until cures for the dementias are discovered, new technologies and interventions are imperative that can reduce the stress and emotional burden of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s ...

This program seeks to develop ultrafast, radiation hard, and rugged scintillators for nuclear battlefields based on high  melting-point temperatures oxide crystal. Doping, co-doping, and alloying schemes will be explored to reach the target of < 5ns decay time, light yield >1000 ph/MeV, moderate energy resolution