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ABSTRACT Approximately 700,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with a primary brain tumor. Of these, malignant gliomas (MGs) account for approximately 40% of all intracranial tumors, with an overall survival rate of only ~34%. Surgical resection remains the cornerstone of therapy and the extent of resection correlates with survival. Fluorescence imaging has emerged as an adjunctive techn ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type of muscular dystrophy, caused due to mutations in the dystrophin gene. DMD is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and overall loss of muscle function. DMD patients become wheel chair dependant by 12 years of age and the associated cardiorespiratory complications result in their early death around 20 years of age. Dys ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The long-term goal of this proposal is to improve the care of patients suffering from Large Vessel Occlusion Acute Ischemic stroke. Currently, mechanical thrombectomy techniques can achieve revascularization in over 70% of cases, and physicians are rapidly adoption aspiration thrombectomy over stent-trievers. Aspiration maintains equivalent angiographic and clinical outcom ...

PROJECT ABSTRACT Myriel, Inc., is a pharmaceutical start-up company founded in 2022 to find cures for tauopathies, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), which impair cognition in 32% of US adults 65 years and older. The goal of this Phase 1 STTR application is to provide Myriel with a brain-penetrant analogue of our lead compound, GPHR ‘739, the first potent, selective, r ...

Project Summary This STTR proposal will focus on developing and testing a novel, first-on-the-market implantable biosensor for in vivo, real-time sensing of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (GLU) for animal studies. GABA and GLU are neurotransmitters (NTs) that are essential for information processing and plasticity, memory, and other functions. GLU is the major excitatory NT and GABA ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...

Kaney is transitioning MAGTORQUE™ technology for platforms within the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. Kaney’s disruptive MAGTORQUE™ technology provides enhanced actuator precision via the strategic integration of magnetic materials to achieve zero backlash actuation, however this zero-backlash actuation requires additional magnetic materials that impact overall ac ...

The proposed phase-I STTR research is an interdisciplinary effort to develop more effective clinical management of Status Epilepticus (SE) in collaboration with one of the leading neurological institutes in the world, the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. SE is a life-threatening neurological emergency that can occur without warning and is characterized by recurrent seizures witho ...

To aid in Air Force design and sustainment activities of additively manufactured components, QuesTek Innovations LLC, in collaboration with the University of Utah, will further develop and mature an accurate, efficient, and comprehensive fatigue life mode

ABSTRACT This Phase STTR Phase II proposal aims to engineer and scale-up a synthetic metabolic pathway in a microbial host to produce UDCA and related compounds. Additionally, the UDCA produced from the engineered synthetic metabolic pathway will be used to synthesize derivatives for testing in our Alzheimer’s Disease cell and animal models. The proposed work has high intellectual merit for the ...