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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR proposal to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) requests funding to expand the capabilities of the Medicare Research Information Center (MedRIC) recently established by Acumen LLC with earlier support from NIA. The purpose of MedRIC is to facilitate the acquisition and linking of administrative data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR proposal to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) requests funding to expand the capabilities of the Medicare Research Information Center (MedRIC) recently established by Acumen LLC with earlier support from NIA. The purpose of MedRIC is to facilitate the acquisition and linking of administrative data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 6. Project Summary-Abstract Modern societies face a mounting epidemic that cuts across all age groups: daily sleep loss. Cumulative sleep loss induces excessive daytime sleepiness and impairs cognitive performance. Among its many financial and physical consequences: sinking job productivity and rising auto accident rates. Clinicians increasingly note the negati ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder, which leads to the abnormal composition and physical properties of airway secretions in CF patients. Additionally, the lungs of CF patients are particularly susceptible to chronic bacterial infections with >80% of CF patients becoming chronically infected by 18 years of life with mucoid forms of Pseudomon ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Monitoring the effects of pharmaceutical or radiation intervention in cancer patients is an important tool in the management of disease. Current methods for monitoring tumor response to therapy using imaging include CT and PET scanning. Emerging methods include functional and molecular imaging. In addition to the use of imaging to visually assess tumor growth, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human embryonic stem cells (HuES) have the potential to generate an unlimited source of beta/islet cells for transplantation, however the biologic factors required for this process have been difficult to ascertain partly due to the lack of stage specific in vitro cell assays. Recently, we have developed a murine in vitro pancreatic stem/progenitor colony assay ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our long term goal is to develop a universal cell-based therapy containing human myeloid progenitor cells to attenuate radiation-induced gastrointestinal or hematopoietic injury. Radiation (XRT) remains an important therapeutic modality in the treatment of malignancies. Injury to the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and hematopoietic system are serious sequelae of r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cerebral autoregulation that maintains perfusion in response to fluctuations of systemic blood pressure (BP) is lost post-stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Noninvasive bedside methods are urgently needed to identify people with impaired autoregulation who may be at increased risk for stroke and adverse outcomes. The phase I goals are: 1) To develop and o ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The focus of this proposal is the development of a novel in-vivo imaging device (Molecular Breast Imaging system) that incorporates a clinical validation experiment and a limited pilot and a clinical feasibility evalua tion for pre-clinical and clinical studies. Our primary intent is to facilitate the proof of feasibility of this novel imaging device for early ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research will develop a wearable awareness enhancement and monitoring device (AEMD) which will assist the treatment of trichotillomania, a repetitive hair pulling disorder that leads to noticeable hair loss. The device will monitor relative body position between the hand and the effected hair, creating awareness by signaling the user, using vibrati ...