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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapy The product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computing The project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Sanfilippo disease type B also called mucopolysaccharidosis type III or MPS III is a devastating neuro degenerative genetic disorder of childhood that is fatal There is no cure or effective treatment MPS IIIB is caused by the lack of a lysosomal enzyme called NAGLU alpha N acetylglucosaminidase that is required to degrade heparan sulfate glycosaminoglyca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose new probes for correlative super resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy that use biorthogonal reactions Click SNAP and HALO tags to label targets in living cells To minimize quenching of the fluorophores by the gold particles the small Undecagold gold atoms gold cluster label will be used this has minimal absorption at wavelengt ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Because many people who inject drugs PWID do not receive adequate information about HIV or HCV testing and prevention or overdose prevention and response training we propose to develop a Mobile Intervention Kit to deliver technology based interventions from a library of theory guided video content The first iteration will address overdose prevention and r ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Freezing whole zebrafish embryos in order to later recover live fish is not currently possible Researchers seeking to preserve zebrafish genetic lines are presently limited to the options of storing frozen sperm in sperm banks or maintaining the fish alive These limitations increase costs and hinder the efficient dissemination of superior wild type and mutan ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The global market for nanoparticles NP in biotechnology drug development and drug delivery was estimated to be $ B for and is expected to reach more than $ B by The two most active areas of product development are NPs for drug delivery and for in vivo imaging In these applications it is often critical that he outer surfaces of NPs are functiona ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is poised to increase exponentially with the growing aging population worldwide In the United States total annual costs of AD care are projected to increase from $ billion in to over $ trillion in Paucity of disease modifying therapies capable of slowing the disease progression is an acute unmet ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adolescents face combined problems of increased HIV risk infrequent testing inconsistent linkage to care and a lack of prevention related knowledge We propose to address this by developing a Mobile Augmented Screening MAS tool that will increase youth HIV testing through the use of a tablet based intervention in clinica settings and then use text message ...