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The vast majority of injuries in recent military conflicts have been inflicted by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) causing brain, extremities and genital-urinary injuries. Advanced computational models of IED blast physics and human body injury biomech

The project team is developing and testing a prototype of Thinkzone, a blended learning portal intended for Kindergarten through Grade 8 teachers to host existing education learning games across core subject areas. The prototype will host games, and include a learning system to train educators to integrate games to replace or supplement instructional practice. In the Phase I pilot study will inclu ...

This project team is developing and testing a prototype of the Ivymount Social Readiness System, a mobile app designed for practitioners to assess the social and emotional strengths and deficits of kindergarten through Grade 6 students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (HF-ASD). The prototype app will include an assessment rubric and professional development resources to facilitate i ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of Emotion Explorer, a web-based program intended for kindergarten to Grade 2 students to create interactive storybooks to strengthen emotional literacy. Using the prototype, students will read and listen to storybooks focused on emotional literacy topics (i.e., emotion recognition, labeling, understanding, expression, regulation), after which th ...

Trauma is the leading cause of death in civilian and military environments and acute hemorrhage contributes to a large portion of these fatalities. Recent experience from Iraq and Afghanistan has demonstrated the crucial role of blood products in the care of critically injured soldiers. Unlike plasma and red blood cells, which can be cold stored for longer time periods, platelets can be safely sto ...

The objective of this project is to develop, produce, and commercialize a liquid-tight, field-applicable, ocular patch for wound stabilization and treatment of the eye following a war-related injury to the ocular surface. The patch consists of a curved flexible silicone membrane (similar in size and shape to a contact lens) which has had (1) a novel bio-adhesive

Currently, no commercial products exist for the repair of large injuries to muscle, particularly volumetric muscle loss (VML). In Phase I of this project, data demonstrated that keratin biomaterials can provide temporal release of growth factors while maintaining cell viability in vitro and in vivo. In Phase II, the biomaterial formulation was optimized for spatio-temporal delivery of cells and gr ...

Current methods for stem cell isolation are time-consuming, costly, and labor-intensive, and ill-suited for point of care applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose to develop and demonstrate a high-throughput, non-invasive, microfluidic stem cell analyzer to enable a rapid isolation of high-quality stem cell products from clinically relevant samples. Our technology enables significan ...

Some of our nations adversaries possess advanced technologies and equipment necessary for the processing and development of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). There is a growing risk that these capabilities and technologies will be used against the United States or our allies. For this reason, an opportunity exists to develop offensive solutions that will enable warfighters to combat WMD at the so ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a novel technology to convert swine manure to bio-rejuvenators that are green, low in cost and highly effective (more durable) to revitalize tear-off roofing shingles for reuse in pavement construction. Bio-Adhesive Alliance provides a sustainable and environmentally friendly technology to not only treat swine manure, but also to reuse tear-off roofing shingl ...