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This Phase I SBIR project is directed at developing a portable, sensitive, and affordable device to detect M. tuberculosis (Mtb) in sputum samples and simultaneously determine the multidrug resistance profile of the pathogen, all within 3 days of sputum collection (It takes more than 6 weeks using current technology). By significantly reducing the time to detect viable Mtb and obtain its drug resi ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is widespread adoption of a technology with a direct cost-­savings in healthcare. It is estimated that nearly 5,000 patients are harmed each year due to wrong-patient errors in medical imaging. Additionally, even a 10% improvement in efficiency in radiologists' performance would translate to ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to improve respiratory protection against ammonia by using novel carbide-derived carbons (CDCs). The outcome of this project will improve the safety and health for industrial workers, firefighters, and first responders that encounter ammonia in industrial settings and emergency situations. Current ...

Significance Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths with over new diagnoses annually Survival rate of lung cancer patients is correlated with the extent of lymph node metastasis Standard care includes chemotherapy radiation and or surgery Cisplatin is a first line chemotherapy for lung cancer but systemic intravenous IV delivery is confounded by various toxicities rena ...

ABSTRACT The development of transformative therapeutics including the possibility of a cure though gene therapy is the sole mission of Expression Therapeutics and continues to be a major research and development activity in the overall $ B USD hemophilia market space However progress in the field has been limited by significant hurdles including the size complexity instability immunogenic ...

KDH Research andamp Communication KDHRC submits this Fast Track SBIR proposal to develop and evaluate AVOID Anti Vaping Online Information Dissemination a media based online toolkit to support community based organizations CBO prevention programming against youth e cigarette e cig use Youth e cig use also known as vaping is a rapidly growing public health threat with use among hi ...

Project Summary Abstract Despite mandatory use of hand sanitizer on cruise ships there are reported cruise ship onboard norovirus outbreaks in exceeded the number of norovirus outbreaks outbreaks onboard cruise ships in One of the problems of currently available alcohol based hand sanitizer is that alcohol evaporates in less than seconds after each application to a surface ...

Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer CRPC PCa accounts for of PCa deaths and is associated with skeletal metastases CRPC affects patients differently making this disease difficult for physicians to provide standardized treatments with similar outcomes Docetaxel can prolong the overall survival in patients with metastatic CRPC but current therapies do not provide a cure Doce ...

Inhibikase Therapeutics is a clinical stagebiopharmaceutical company that has developed a hosttargeted mechanism of action to treat AIDS related and drug induced progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathyPMLPML is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and was rarely seen clinically until the era of the HIV epidemic began in the midsDuring the height of the epidemicthe rate of PML o ...

Abstract The liver is the most common organ for metastasis of various cancersincluding pancreaticovariancolorectalgastric cancers and melanomaUveal melanoma metastasizes inof patients and upon metastasis targets the liver inof these casesThe most common primary malignant liver cancer worldwide is hepatocellular carcinomaHCCThe use of blind liver biopsy as a diagnostic tool for liver cancer has man ...