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Project Summary Morphometric analysis is a primary algorithmic tool to discover disease and drug related effects on brain anatomy. Neurological degeneration and disease manifest in subtle and varied changes in brain anatomy that can be non-local in nature and effect amounts of white and gray matter as well as relative positioning and shapes of local brain anatomy. State-of-the-art morphometry meth ...

Project Summary Abstract Bacterial infections such as those of prosthetic jointsbonesosteomyelitisand heart valvesinfective endocarditisare difficult to difficult to diagnose and treatand are a major cause of mortalitymorbidity and health care costsThe long term goal of our program is thus to develop positron emission tomographyPETradiotracers that can be used for non invasive PET imaging to detec ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Polychromatic flow cytometryFCis one of the most powerful analytical techniques used in immunologybasic researchand clinical medicineIn basic researchFC is a primary tool for understanding disease development at the cellular and subcellular levelsIn the rapidly developing field of immunotherapyFC is an indispensable tool for monitoring the effectiveness of new therapies an ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Payment Program is designed to motivate healthcare providers to adhere to best practices in clinical healthcare and patient safetyUnfortunatelyextracting quality measures data from the clinical record is burdensome and as suchparticipation among clinical healthcare providers is suboptimalOur aim is to develop a system to facilit ...

Project SummaryA significant cause of mobility impairment in the elderly is peripheral arterial diseasePADPAD results in significant functional declinereduced walking speed and distanceand lower physical activity levelsresulting in a loss of independence and impaired quality of lifeThe most effective therapy for PAD is rigorous exercisee gwalkingHowevermost PAD patients will not participate in sup ...

AbstractPersons living with dementiaPWDoften require assistance with routine activities and daily tasksWorkloads placed on caregivers often results in high levels of physical and emotional stressand depressionand higher overall morbidity and mortality ratesFocus group of caregivers for individuals with mild to moderate dementiaidentified dressing the PWD as the most pressing and stressful daily co ...

PROJECT SUMMARYIn this proposalEpiCypher is partnering with DrJian Jina leader in medicinal chemistry and epigenetic drug discoveryto develop the first epigenetics focused chemical library for histone methylationSmall molecule inhibitors that target histone methylation are an emerging class of therapeutics for cancer treatmentThis hot bed of drug development is fueled by the identification of nume ...

Project Abstract Myos Incis developing a cell therapy treatment for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophyDMDbased on HLA matched donor cells that are pretreated with small molecule cocktails ex vivo to modify genes that will enhance engraftment and fusion and enable muscle regenerationMyos is collaborating with DrLouis KunkelBoston Children s Hospitalto address the issues that led to low effic ...

Project Summary AbstractParticle trackingPTis a biophysical tool for elucidating molecular interactionstransport phenomena of diverse speciesand rheological properties of complex materialsPT experiments involve first obtaining high resolution videos that capture time resolved increments of particlesfollowed by extraction of traces of entities of interest from videos in the form of spatial location ...

Abstract Prostate cancerCaPis the most common non skin cancer in men and third most common cause of cancer deaths in menBlack men experience a higher burden of incidence and mortality from CaP compared to White menThe Prostate Specific AntigenPSAtesta commonly used biomarker for early diagnosis and management of CaPcannot alone accurately predict the presence of CaPits aggressivenessor the risk of ...