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PROJECT SUMMARY Hydrocephalus causes long term neurological problems and patient suffering. Current treatments, most of which involve surgical diversion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with shunt catheters, fail at an alarming rate. Approximately 98% of all shunts fail within 10 years, and this failure rate is the dominant contributor to the $2 billion-per-year cost that hydrocephalus incurs on our h ...

Recent advances in technology have made possible the treatment of a growing number of structural cardiovascular diseases by catheter based procedures. Atrial septal defects (ASD), ventricular septal defects (VSD), aortic aneurysm, congenital defects and valve disease are all currently being treated with catheter based strategies. These procedures are complex and are prone to device misplacement, e ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This project is to expand the InheRET Inherited Risk Evaluation Tool to include recommendations for testing of patients at increased risk for hereditary disease, adding patient navigation features and customizable database entries for healthcare providers. This will include the development, integration and testing of InheRET 3.0 followed by pilot testing in 5 diverse clinics. InheR ...

Project Summary Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly occurring forms of cancer, accounting for 21% of all cancer in men. The Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) aims to standardize reporting of prostate cancer using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI). However, the in-depth analysis, as demanded by PI-RADS, remains challenging due to the complexity and heter ...

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading, and due to the aging baby boomers, a growing cause of irreversible vision loss in the United States, and is strongly associated with exposure to cigarette smoke (CS) and high fat diets (HFD). While effective treatment is available for neovascular AMD, the AREDS II antioxidant vitamins are the only proven treatment fo ...

Abstract This Phase II STTR application represents the main research and development effort for an innovative, low cost, magnetic levitation motor specifically designed for neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal cardiac and cardiopulmonary therapies. Our Phase I efforts demonstrated feasibility of a novel magnetic levitation motor enabling contact-free blood pump impeller operation. Contact-free op ...

The multidisciplinary area of GEOINT is changing and becoming more complex. A major driver of innovation in GEOINT collection and processing is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is being leveraged to help accomplish spatial analysis, change detection, and image or video triage tasks where filtering objects of interest from large volumes of data is critical. NGA is confronting the changing GEOINT l ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal is in response to the parent announcement for Phase II STTR (R42) grant applications. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become a preferred treatment for hematological malignancies and certain genetic disorders. Umbilical cord blood has become an appealing alternative to bone marrow or peripheral blood as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplant. D ...

The adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is growing at a fast pace in the U.S., and this growth results in very large quantities of patient clinical data becoming available in electronic format with tremendous potential but an equally large concern for patient confidentiality breaches. Secondary use of clinical data is essential to fulfill the potential for high quality healthcare, i ...

Summary Technology for studying the higher order structure (HOS) and interactions of biomolecules is a highlighted NIGMS SBIR/STTR research topic. Mass-spectrometric methods for studying HOS include hydroxyl radical footprinting as well as chemical methods to covalently label amino acid side-chain functional groups, and also hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) on protein backbone amides. These metho ...