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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT With the increased use of mobile health (mHealth) apps to improve health outcomes, protecting private health data is becoming increasingly important. These mHealth apps are offered by healthcare providers and used by patients for various reasons such as paying bills, scheduling appointments, sending messages to providers, accessing lab results, and viewing prescriptions an ...

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 Pre-clinical and pre-field toxicology testing of new drugs and chemicals does not routinely include direct assessment of human developmental neurotoxicity (DNT). Current standards for DNT testing require use of animal models with limited throughput and significant differences from human central nervous system (CNS) development. As such, many chemical products have required post-app ...

Pediatric limb loss, although relatively infrequent compared to adults, results in substantial hardship for children and their families. The principal business interest? iFIT Prosthetics, LLC®? successfully developed and manufactured innovative, fully adjustable, transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic devices, and demonstrated their safety, comfort, and functionality in adults. Made of injection ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Despite a growing need for smoking cessation services, Latino smokers face notable disparities in cessation treatment. Consequently, there is a big opportunity, both from a scientific and a business perspective, to develop and test the most optimal culturally tailored approaches to enroll and engage Latino Smokers into cessation programs. The Kick Buts program owned by Agile Health ...

The adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is growing at a fast pace in the U.S., and this growth results in very large quantities of patient clinical data becoming available in electronic format with tremendous potential but an equally large concern for patient confidentiality breaches. Secondary use of clinical data is essential to fulfill the potential for high quality healthcare, i ...

Project Summary The goal of this project is to commercialize a wireless, wearable system to estimate the tension in superficial tendons throughout the limbs during dynamic movements. Tendon tension provides an estimate of muscle force, which is important information for understanding biomechanical behavior in all types of movement. Understanding muscle-tendon function inside the body is especially ...

Project Summary/Abstract The ultimate goal of this phase II STTR proposal is to expand the capabilities of SABandapos;s diversitAb™ platform by continuing advanced development of Transchromosomic goats (TcGs). This will be accomplished by producing male and female goat endogenous immunoglobulin gene knockout cell lines that contain SAB Capraandapos;s human artificial chromosome (HAC) which encod ...

The goal of this workis to establish a radiation-aware capability in a commercial EDA design flow that will enable first-pass success in radiation resiliency for DoD ASIC designs in much the same way that existing EDA design suites ensure first pass functionality and performance success of complex ASICs destined for commercial applications.Such an integrated capability does not presently exist.The ...

Respiratory infections with influenza viruses cause severe morbidity and mortality in humans and animals worldwideImportantlyin humansthe majority of morbidity and mortality following flu infection is seen in older individualsrtyears oldYetclear understanding of how aging impacts on innate immune responsesand how to improve vaccine design in this age group is lackingRestimulating preexisting memor ...