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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a chronic, recurring condition that if left untreated, poses a significant and ongoing public health threat. OUD is associated with significant impairments in physical and psychological health including increased mortality and high utilization of emergency medical care as well as increased risk of Hepatitis C and HIV infection and Neonatal Abst ...

Mekanistic Therapeutics seeks to design, discover, and develop anti-cancer agents that selectively inhibit multiple oncogenic pathways. Among Mekanistic’s portfolio are dual and highly selective inhibitors of EGFR and PI3 kinase, which were rationally designed to only target these two critical oncogenes. The PI3 kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mTOR pathway plays a central role in driving tumor cell survival a ...

Abstract Aggregation of mutated myocilin (MYOC), a protein found in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of trabecular meshwork (TM) cells, disrupts the outflow of aqueous humor from the eye, causing increase in intraocular pressure (IOP), progressive retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death, and degeneration of the optic nerve, leading to primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), characterized by irreversible visio ...

ABSTRACT Many clinical situations, including stroke, expose the brain to insufficient cerebral blood flow (CBF) that cannot maintain normal cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2) requirements, thereby leading to cerebral ischemic/hypoxic stresses and neurological disorders. Effective interventions are dependent on the findings of CBF/CMRO2 improvement and eventually neural recovery. ...

PROJECT SUMMARY FOR PREDICATE STTR PHASE I GRANT Perioperative and prescribed opioids often result in costly and unpredictable adverse effects, including life threatening respiratory depression and long-term opioid use/misuse in vulnerable patients. The US FDA warns against the use of codeine and tramadol in children due to postoperative anoxic brain injuries and deaths, and in nursing mothers due ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The lack of a means to quantify soft tissue manipulation (STM) motion and dose as delivered in the clinic is a critical problem in the reproducibility and therapeutic potential of this non-invasive and non-pharmacological modality. STM is a form of manual therapy used to evaluate and treat musculoskeletal pain, inflammation, and dysfunction. Different soft tissue forces have differ ...

This project aims to create a general-purpose readout architecture that will allow the rapid deployment of next generation detection systems. The system will be based on the development of a programmable general-purpose integrated circuit (GPIC) that has the front-end electronics required to read out signals from a variety of radiation detectors, especially next generation scintillators and semico ...

ABSTRACT: Cutaneous vascular malformations (CVM), such as port wine stain (PWS) which occurs in 0.3–0.5% of newborns, are often a cause of great concern to patients for both medical and cosmetic reasons. Laser irradiation with flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye lasers, i.e. photothermolysis therapy (PTT), is currently the gold standard treatment for PWS. Most patients with PWS, however, fail to clear c ...

Obstetricians measure fetal heartrate (FHR) and uterine contractions to evaluate fetal health during pregnancy and labor. This monitoring is performed to decrease the development of complications while minimizing the need for unnecessary obstetric interventions and is especially important for women with high-risk pregnancies. However, many women, especially in rural areas, do not have the time or ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Understanding of tumor molecular characteristics during a course of radiotherapy (RT) treatment is crucial to assess the efficacy of the treatment and adapt radiation dosage to optimize outcomes. Unfortunately, this cannot be routinely achieved by current diagnostic nuclear imaging modalities due to complex logistics and prohibitive costs. Alternatively, Cerenkov Emission (CE) is a ...