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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to produce a fully characterized polyurethane heart valve prosthesis that will be ready for clinical evaluation. Existing replacement valves suffer from several shortcomings. Specifically, biological tissue fixation and methods used to mount the tissue to the supporting stent of bioprostheses cause time dependent structural changes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a highly prevalent, under-diagnosed disorder affecting over 18 million Americans, is responsible for more mortality and morbidity than any other sleep disorder. Dentists are increasingly involved with the treatment of OSA with oral appliances, an accepted treatment of OSA for patients with mild to moderate disease severity and for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Malignant gliomas have a very poor prognosis with median survival measured in months rather than years. It is a disease with great need of novel therapeutic approaches. Within cancer gene therapy the use of adenoviral vectors to deliver HSV-tk (AdV-tk) has been one of the most widely studied and promising approaches. A few dose escalation Phase I studies ha ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The analysis of components in human breath is a powerful non-invasive technique for the diagnosis and monitoring of asthma, cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The presence of elevated levels of nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), carbonyl sulfide (OCS), and ethane (C2H6) in the breath have been identified as biomarkers o ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We believe a key barrier to transforming clinical research is the lack of open, integrated, transparent technology solutions that address bottlenecks in information integration and business process management. Our viewpoint is supported by a recent Forrester Research study that identifies proprietary software as "one of the biggest barriers" to interoperability ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dedicated high-resolution small animal imaging systems have recently emerged as important new tools for cancer research. Of these systems, x-ray microcomputed tomography (microCT) shows promise as a cost-effective means for detecting and characterizing soft tissue structures, skeletal abnormalities, and tumors in live animals. Existing CT systems provide high-r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nuclear medicine imaging modalities such as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are powerful, non-invasive medical imaging techniques that provide an image of the three dimensional distribution of a radionuclide in any slice through an organ under study in the body. These images allow investigation of metab ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ideal biological imaging system would provide non-invasive, high-resolution, high-sensitivity, three-dimensional (3D) functional and anatomic images of living systems. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) offers high sensitivity to a range of biological processes through the use of targeted radiolabeled probes. Unfortunately, precise signal localization can b ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Information on the structure and function of proteins is important for unveiling biological processes taking place on a molecular level. X-ray crystallography has been successful in determining protein structure, however, it is not well suited for analyzing hydrogen atoms and water molecules. It has been shown that the thermal neutrons are a far better tool for ...