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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The culture and shipment of islets are an integral part of islet transplant research. Flasks, petri dishes, and bags are the devices used to perform that role. However, these devices have inherent design characteristics that make them poorly suited to the unique needs of islet culture and islet shipping. This results in the use of far too many devices to maint ...

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): Despite the widespread practice of basic and advanced life support, over 1000 patients die each day in the United States from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Even though they receive standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (sCPR) the average national survival to hospital discharge for these patients is less than 5%. The applicants have developed the inspir ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is challenging for visually-impaired people to find their way in unfamiliar, complex indoor spaces such as schools or office buildings. GPS technology has already been exploited for speech-based navigation for visual ly-impaired wayfinding in outdoor environments, but there is no equivalent technology for indoor wayfinding. Sighted pedestrians may sometimes ...

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 ...