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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of the Phase I study is to determine the feasibility of piloting a low cost Real Time Location System RTLS for use in healthcare based on a novel technology known as Near Field Electromagnetic The proposed QHealth system promises to support a number of healthcare applications such as equipment management workflow optimization hand hygiene complian ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant ParaTechs Corporation aims to provide researchers with advanced technology and methods to simplify procedures for laboratory animal models While actively supporting efforts to `reduce replace and refineandapos animal use ParaTechs provides safe and efficient alternatives for surgical procedures We have already brought to market a nonsurgical embryo transfe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant According to the CDC in ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and in the US approximately patients died of ischemic heart disease It is well established in clinical practice that recanalization of he infarct related artery IRA using percutaneous coronary intervention PCI enhances myocardial salvage and outcomes in pa ...

Abstract The objective of this study is to develop a novel predictive in vitro model for personalized responses to CFTR directed therapeutics This proposal responds to RFA HL Human Cellular Models for Predicting Individual Responses to Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Directed Therapeutics Cystic fibrosis CF is a life shortening genetic disease caused by loss of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chikungunya virus CHIKV is an alphavirus classified as a category C priority pathogen that causes fever rash and arthralgia in humans In the past decade CHIKV outbreaks have spread beyond the endemic regions of Africa and Asia first to the islands in the Indian Ocean and most recently to the Americas The World Health Organization has reported that as ...

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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

Aflatoxins are a paradigm among fungal produced mycotoxins that are present in food supplies and are strongly associated with increased risk forthe development of hepatocellular carcinoma. Currently, there are no known countermeasures that can selectively mitigate aflatoxin toxicity andthe available options are only symptomatic treatments. To meet this challenge, we propose to harness the microbio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant DiscoveryBioMed Inc DBM Inc or DBM specializes in normal and diseased human cell platform engineering DBM has assembled a consortium of experts whereby collectively we seek Fast Track SBIR funding to establish and offer a Product Line Menu of normal and ADPKD human cell platforms for the academic and industry marketplaces Existing and interested DBM ...