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AbstractProject Summary Cognition Therapeutics IncsCogrxmission is to develop effective therapeutics for Alzheimer s diseaseADOligomers of the brain protein Amyloid betaA Oshave been identified as toxic components that are involved with disease progressionCognition has identified a subset of sigmareceptor binding modulators that displaces A Os from synaptic receptor sites and clears them into the ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant While HIV AIDS can be managed with antiretroviral drugs these agents do not clear the virus and require life long administration Recently we discovered a completely new class of compounds that interfere with the HIV virulence factor called Nef This viral protein is critical to HIV replication in vivo immune escape of HIV infected cells and AIDS progre ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We have discovered the first ever inhibitors of PF a platelet protein central to the pathophysiology of heparin induced thrombocytopenia HIT Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant that prevents the formation of clots and extension of existing clots within the vasculature and major medical applications of heparin include dialysis cardiac catheteri ...

Abstract In 2015, 1,658,370 new cancer cases are estimated to occur in the US, where nearly two-thirds will have radiation therapy (RT). Given that there are over 2,300 RT centers in the US, and current systems for contouring organs at risk (OARs) rely mostly on manual methods, there is a strong commercial opportunity for producing a software system that can contour OARs in medical images at a hig ...

ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apnea OSA is the most common type of sleep apnea OSA affects an estimated million adults and of all children in the US OSA results in tiredness depression and fatigue and has several associated common comorbidities It is believed that over of OSA remains undiagnosed The prevalence of OSA increases with age and if untreated increases the risk of ...

ABSTRACT This Phase II SBIR proposal leverages the progress made in Phase I on the development of a novel contrast mixture enhanced Tweighted MRI technique as a safesensitiveand objective diagnostic test for the increased permeability in the luminal surface of the urinary bladder in Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain SyndromeIC BPSpatientsThe purpose of having such a test is ultimately to allow cl ...

Summary In this fast track Phase I II STTR project a novel mass spectrometry method and a matched reagent kit will be developed for mapping modified nucleotides in human mitochondrial transfer RNA mt tRNA including the most abundant modification pseudouridine which hitherto has proved to be a technical challenge because it is an isomer of uridine These new research tools will be harnessed to build ...

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 ...

Despite significance advances in anti retroviral treatments HIV associated neurocognitive disorder HAND remains prevalent and can affect a broad range of everyday activities An effective brief cognitive screen that could be implemented in busy HIV clinics where clinicians have limited time to provide care for patients with complex medical psychiatric and cognitive conditions has the poten ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...