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PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACTThe opioid crisis is an epidemic with devastating health, social, and economic consequences for the United States. From 1999–2018, almost 450,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids. Three million US citizens and 16 million individuals worldwide have had or currently suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD). The tot ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Stroke injury occurs over a long duration through pathologic changes leading to long-term neurologic dysfunction. There is an urgent need of therapeutic strategies that can provide safe and efficacious therapeutic effects to the hypoperfused brain with long-lasting endogenous neuroprotection for prevention of long-term neurologic dysfunction. Sufficient evidence has pointe ...

Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a commonly used treatment option for localized prostate cancer, which carries a high risk for development of erectile dysfunction (ED) because of cavernous nerve (CN) injury. Even newer, nerve-sparing, robotic procedures do not convincingly improve erectile function (EF) outcomes after RP. In addition, ED resulting from RP is often refractory to treatment by orally ad ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This Phase I/II STTR Fast Track proposal responds to the call from the 2018/2019 NCATS SBIR/STTR Research Priorities to develop technologies so that “new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered to patients more quickly”. The production of life-altering gene editing vectors, cancer killing viruses, and life- saving vaccines currently depends on traditional cel ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Approximately 4% of people in the US are either deaf or hard of hearing, equating to more than 13 million people. Of these, approximately 12 million people over the age of 5 years have difficulty hearing normal conversation even when using a hearing aid. Hearing difficulties affect all age groups and present significant challenges in daily life. These challenges are particularly ac ...

Toyon Research Corporation (Toyon) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) propose research, development, and demonstration of algorithms and an efficient software prototype for 3D model reconstruction using single images collected via remote sensing. In particular, the effort is focused on processing of high-resolution commercial satellite images for 3D reconstruction of buildings. ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe purpose of this project is to develop an improvedminimally invasive treatment for intracranial aneurysmsIntracranial aneurysms are spherical outpouchings of blood vessels in the head that result from weakness in the vessel wallUnruptured aneurysms are present in approximatelyof the general populationand rupture can be devastating with a high morbidity and mortal ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantNeuron cell culture is widely used for studies in basic researchdrug discoveryand toxicity testingTraditional neuron cell culture approaches result in random growth of processes which prevent the study of their unique polarized morphologyOur goal is to provide robustuser friendlyand cost effective culture platforms to manipulate and access neurons and their subcellu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Fast Track Small Business Technology Transfer study between Materia Inc in Pasadena CA and the University of Kansas intends to build upon successes of our current Phase II Fast Track STTR grant R GM which ends on March Preliminary results serve as a solid foundation for this Fast Track submission entitled andquot Development of Re ...