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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many infectious diseases and chronic illnesses have underlying spatiotemporal relationships with the environment that are challenging to integrate into public health strategies. Compounding this challenge is the growing threat from climate change and lack of actionable information. Access to pertinent geospatial data, disparate data sources, and lack of data us ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. proposes to develop novel blood oxygenator membranes with enhanced blood biocompatibility. These will be used to enhance conventional cardio bypass surgery minimizing post operative effects. In addition, they will provide a key element for long term blood oxygenation associated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, acute respi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately 54,000 Americans are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma each year. The disease kills about 14,000 Americans each year and has the highest mortality rate of all urologic cancers (about twice the mortality rate of prostate and bladder cancer). In the past, treatment of renal cell carcinoma required surgical removal of the entire affected kidney lea ...

The long-term objective is to improve the care and quality of life for patients living with advanced cancer and their family caregivers by implementing a highly secure, user-friendly system to: - Maintain interactive symptom surveillance and medication adherence - Measure patient-reported quality of life - Provide tailored care plans and education for patients and their caregivers based on the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This year cancer will become the leading cause of death worldwide. The global burden of cancer doubled between 1975 and 2000. By 2020, it is projected to double again, and to triple by 2030. Ideally, any cancer therapy should be effective (at killing cancerous cells), targeted (i.e. selective, to avoid killing healthy cells), permanent (to avoid relapse and met ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide by 2010. The global burden of cancer doubled between 1975 and 2000. By 2020, it is projected to double again, and to triple by 2030. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a particularly deadly type of cancer. In 2008, 19,920 Americans were diagnosed with MM, and 10,690 died. Five-year survival rates are on ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The early infiltration by leukocytes into the tumor microenvironment leads to neovascularization, enhanced tumor growth, metastasis and lethality of the host. Notably, leukocytes enable tumor establishment, as suggested early on by Virchow in 1826 and proven more recently by others (e.g. Manning et al, 2007 Clin Ca Res 13:3951; review Wasiuk/Noelle et al. 2009 ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Disorders of the pancreas affect more than one million persons in this country with nearly 3 billion in health care costs. The incidence rate of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is rapidly increasing and may be related to expanded alcohol abuse. Advanced CP causes severe structural damage to the pancreas leading to chronic abdominal pain, endocrine failure (diabetes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates the yearly incidence of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) at approximately 1.2 million cases in the United States alone. Approximately 1/3 of these injuries occur in football. The Principal Objective of this NIH Phase II SBIR project is to develop and validate HitAlert , a low cost head impact alert system for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pulmonary medicine is facing a broad spectrum of unmet clinical needs, mainly for three reasons: (1) Lack of regional and quantitative information about lung function especially in obstructive disease; (2) Lack of a radiation-free diagnostic modality in pediatric lung diseases to initiate treatment at the right time; (3) Lack of a grading scale for inflammatory ...