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This project addresses the need for increased opportunities for customized employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities by developing the Person-Centered Planning ToolKit. The Toolkit will enhance implementation of personcentered planning (PCP), often limited by lack of follow-through on action items and a lack of tools to match career preferences to specific customized employment opport ...

This project develops and tests a Bluetooth compliant tongue-based electronic controller (a.k.a. “Mouth Mouse”), designed to give people with upper limb disability control of peripheral devices including computers and communication systems, home automation, and powered wheelchairs, as well as many other Bluetooth compliant devices and new technologies to come in the future. The Mouth Mouse is ...

This project creates an online, interactive, self-paced mindfulness intervention program specifically designed for adolescents with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), a common genetic disorder. The goal of the project is to adapt and examine the usability of a novel online mindfulness training program for adolescents (ages 13 to 18) with 22q11DS. To date, there are very few behavioral ...

This project develops and evaluates an intelligent web-based application, Tools for Reading to Acquire Content Knowledge (TRACK) for middle and high school students with neurocognitive deficits such as individuals with learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, traumatic brain injury, or autism spectrum disorder. Applying a participatory action research approach, investigator ...

TuberculosisTBkilled an estimatedmillion people in the world inOverof the mortalities associated with this deisease occurred in regions of the world where access to reliable TB testing and other suppotive infrastructure is severely limitedUntil there are pivotal technological innovations in the diagnosis of TB for point of carePOCapplicationthe ambitious goals of the WHO s End TB strategyareductio ...

Combining both genomic analysis and highEresolution imaging on a cellEbyEcell basis typically relies on customized technology which often requires significant expertise and capital costCell MicrosystemsInchas partnered with Peter SimsPhD of Columbia University to commercialize a novel workflow for integrated imaging and sample preparation for single cell transcriptomic analysisDrSims workflowSingl ...

Under the Small Business Innovation Research ProgramSBIRPhase I programTopicthe Contractor will develop a comprehensive approach to allow hospitals gain control of their opioid medicationsThe Contractor approach is totrack opioids from the pharmacy to the patienttrack the amount given to the patientand for opioid waste to track it back to the pharmacybetter administer opioids to patients that offe ...

Under the Small Business Innovation Research ProgramSBIRPhase I programTopicthe Contractor will develop an integrated device and system for drug detection and deactivation to deter controlled substance theft in hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings

The Contractorwill use modern technology to develop a fully integratedcommercially viable device for controlled pharmaceutical drug detectiondeactivationand disposal to ensure compliance with DEA regulations and deter opioid theft

This application describes the commercialization of the Geodesic Transcranial Electrical Neuromodulation (GTEN) technology to achieve noninvasive neuromodulation with improved spatiotemporal precision. The GTEN system enables both EEG source analysis and configurable electrical neuromodulation with the 256 electrodes of the Geodesic Sensor Net. Now in beta release to selected research customers, t ...