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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Currently there exists no technology for routine measurement of cardiac output (CO) in neonates (0.4-2.5Kg) and low weight pediatric (2.5Kg+) patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Accurate measurement of CO would a llow for better assessment of therapies and thereby improve patient health care. Conventional methods used with adults for routine CO measureme ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is submitted as a Phase II SBIR application, pursuant to our existing Phase I grant, which was funded in response to the NIMH Program Announcement #PA-02-027 entitled: "Pharmacological agents and drugs for mental disorders". The development of new pharmaceuticals for neuropsychiatric disorders is limited by the lack of rapid and effective methods ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Lung transplantation is the only effective treatment modality for patients with end-stage lung disease. Ischemia-reperfusion injury, associated with the retrieval, storage and transplantation of the lung is a major immu ne-independent factor adversely affecting early graft function, graft viability and recipient morbidity and mortality. Marginal donor lungs, ar ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The language barrier between immigrant parents and their English-dominant children is a pervasive and relatively unrecognized problem in an estimated 12 million U.S. households. This intergenerational language gap often leads to adverse health outcomes for both children and adults for the following reasons: (1) it hinders young children's ability to communicat ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this Compact Membrane Systems (CMS) program is to develop a new platform technology for fire suppression and fire prevention systems around membrane supplied nitrogen enriched air (NEA). The limitation that the atmospheres used in the fire suppression be breathable to occupants in the proximity of a fire is easily accomplished by CMS technolog ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase II application is being submitted in response to a continuing NIMH program announcement for Pharmacological Agents and Drugs for Mental Disorders. The goal of the proposal is to use an innovative behavior-dri ven approach to psychiatric drug discovery to overcome the major limitations associated with target-driven approaches that have impeded the dis ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This SBIR Phase II proposal is a plan to further develop a new therapeutic approach that will save the lives of patients with sepsis (especially surgical sepsis), a condition that affects 750,000 people every year in th e United States alone and also causes high mortality worldwide. Although activated protein C [APC, Drotrecogin alpha (activated), Xigris. marke ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cell Preservation Services, Inc. (CPSI) is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of novel technologies in the area of low temperature biology and medicine. CPSI's core molecular strategy is focused on und erstanding and manipulating the cell survival and cell death pathways that appear to be cell-specific and are activated as a consequence of low ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multi-factorial neurodegenerative disorder. According to the prevailing amyloid cascade hypothesis, cognitive decline and distinct pathogenic features in AD relate to abnormal accumulation of amyloid beta-peptide (A?) in the brain. While efforts are underway to enhance A? clearance, prevent its formation, or to develop anti- A? sm ...

ABSTRACT This Phase II SBIR application requests 36 months of support for the development and testing of a skill-based prevention program for career and technical education (CTE) students about to transition to full-time work. The program, LifeSkills Train ing Transition to Work (LST-TW), will [provide students with the self-management and interpersonal skills needed to resist internal and externa ...