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Project Abstract Active surveillance (AS) is becoming more accepted as a reasonable treatment option for men with low-risk prostate cancer (i.e. Gleason score 6, clinical stage T2a, PSA lt 10). Many AS protocols at major institutions call for a prostate saturation biopsy after initial diagnosis to confirm that the patient has no areas of higher-risk prostate cancer. For most patients who underwent ...

Project Summary/Abstract This Administrative Supplement proposes the participation of a 3-member team from the Center for Progressive Recovery, LLC (CPR) in the Innovation Corps (I-Corps™), an intensive, 8-week program focused on developing a successful commercialization plan and business model for technology-driven start-ups funded by NIH’s SBIR Phase I mechanism. The program would entail tra ...

ABSTRACT Suicide is a top ten cause of death in the US and rates of suicide have increased steadily for the last twenty years. Despite this, there is a paucity of research on treatment programs designed to reduce suicide attempts and none that include a digital therapeutic. In this Phase I SBIR application Oui Therapeutics, LLC proposes a project to: 1) create a beta version of the Oui app (called ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a completely new, low cost and robust bactericidal urinary 100% silicone Foley catheter with a gt3-6 month shelf-life, that will utilize electromodulated delivery of nitric oxide (NO) for up to 45-60 d to serve as a potent antimicrobial/antibiofilm agent. The first generation device will possess a stable inorganic nitrit salt reservoir within on lume ...

Project Summary/AbstractSystems neuroscience is powered by progressively more sophisticated microscale neural probe technologies. Decoding the complex neural circuits underlying memory, behavior and perception often requires, in part, recording from as many neurons as possible in targeted brain regions with high spatial and temporal precision and over multiple spatial and temporal scales. While ad ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal seeks to develop a novel vaccine against Lyme disease by targeting Ixodes scapularis proteins critical for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission from the tick to mammalian host Earlier work has identified four tick proteins Salp TRE tHRF and TSLPI that facilitate different steps of spirochete transmission and immunity against these protein ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Pediatric opioid use is a public health crisis. In children, prescription opioids are the primary source of non- medical abuse as well as opioid-associated hospitalizations and deaths. Early opioid use in childhood is a known “gateway” to adulthood dependence and substance abuse disorders. Despite years of research, opioids remain the most commonly prescribed pain medi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The central dogma of molecular biology has undergone a significant revision where RNAs have emerged as important regulators of cell activity. Astonishingly, as much as 80% of human DNA is transcribed into RNA as recently reported by the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium. New classes of RNA are being identified including many which are non-protein ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We invented an innovative protein induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (piPSCs) technology that generates piPSCs from normal fibroblast and cancer cells within 1-week with 90 4% conversion efficiency. Such high conversion efficiency enables us to pioneer an in situ cell reprogramming technology within the cancers of cancer-bearing animals. Instead of generating iPSCs ...

Project summary:Anti-cancer vaccines can be a highly attractive approach for tumor protection and treatment due to the potential for providing long term immunity with few side effects. However, it has been highly challenging to develop successful anti-cancer vaccines. Due to the low inherent immunogenicity of tumor antigens, it is critical that immunogenic carriers are available to powerfully boos ...