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The project will create an affordable system to monitor adolescent athletes in contact sports to identify individuals at risk for traumatic brain injury from continual sub-concussive impacts. The need is to reduce the risk of long term brain injury by providing tools to tell when it's risky/safe to play and find areas where strength training and technique may reduce risk on an individual level. Th ...

Innovative Design Labs (IDL), in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), proposes to create a system for the sensing and control of stand-to-sit motions of a wearable bionics suit. Recent research found that 3.86 million Americans require wheelchairs and the number has been increasing annually by an average annual rate of 5.9% a year. While wheelchairs provide freedom all ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative and malignant diseases of the central nervous system affect millions of Americans These diseases are often devastating and difficult to treat and effective drug delivery remains a significant challenge Infusion of drugs nto the brain parenchyma using convection enhanced delivery CED allows direct treatment of lesions circumventing the bl ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant For this Phase II STTR proposal the investigators plan to develop and commercialize the radiofrequency RF coil technology to make T body MRI possible and to translate this new technology to vastly improve T clinical MRI as well In the Phase I project leading to this proposal all specific aims were accomplished to demonstrate the feasibility of safely an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The laboratory rat is a preferred rodent model in pre clinical drug studies Their larger size facilitates procedures otherwise difficult in mice includng studies using instrumentation blood sampling and surgeries and allows for ten times the amount of tissue collection Although rats are often more suitable than mice for pharmacological toxicological phy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The product is a slide coated with silica colloidal crystals to combine protein electrophoresis with matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry MALDI MS detection giving superior performance in both The Phase II proposal will be to develop an instrument for facile application of the slide in proteomics of intat glycoproteins This propos ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposed project aims to develop an advanced telemetry system for body worn continuous glucose sensors using a new radio based on ultra wideband impulse radio technology The proposed radio features ultra low power and multiple layers of security including distance bounding for secure reliable and low cost body area sensor networks There has been an inc ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Urinary tract infections UTIs caused by extraintestinal pathogenic E coli ExPEC account for nearly million emergency room visits and hospitalizations per year for women in the U S alone Approximately half of all women will experience a symptomatic UTI in their lifetime and will experience a recurrence within to months While several ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The identification and quantification of specific proteins in complex samples are critical processes in discovering understanding and ultimately addressing the underlying nature of human health and disease The western blot is a fundamental method used for these processes due to the sensitivity and specificity enabled by combining protein sizing with immuno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Large numbers of American workers are exposed to high noise environments during their work days Hearing loss from noise exposure is the most common occupational injury for American workers Disposable viscoelastic foam earplugs are widely used to provide personal hearing protection The ability of these foams to attenuate noise has essentially plateaued at the ...