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Cancer patients receiving radiation therapy experience toxic side effects of the radiation, and sensitivity to radiation is variable across both patients and tumors, and is poorly understood. This Phase I SBIR project aims to design and demonstrate the feasibility of a Patient Reported Outcome mobile application for surveillance of RADiotherapy toxicity (PRORAD) that integrates NIH's Patient Repor ...

Here we propose to study two injectable formulations that provide different delivery routes for Talazoparib, potent PAPR inhibitor: An implant, InCeT-Talazoparib, which can be injected directly in the tumor where it will act as a sustained release depot of Talazoparib over a prolonged period of approximately 30 days. It delivers 100% of the drug to the tumor site with almost no systemic toxicity. ...

Cancer survivors commonly report cognitive impairments following chemotherapy. With a growing number of cancer survivors comes an increased urgency to better understand the precise etiology and prevalence of cognitive changes associated with cancer and cancer treatment. This pursuit is impeded by a lack of assessment tools that can accurately detect the full scope of cognitive deficits. To address ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Elderly patients are the largest consumers of prescription and non prescription medications and have been reported to account for $million in treatment costs for medication errors likely due to altered pharmacokineticspolypharmacydecline in cognitionand lower health literacyAs a result of this confluence of issues that affect the aging populationmedication management tools designed ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In response to the growing need for training on interventions to address first episode psychosis, the Center for Social Innovation (C4) has partnered with experts in Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) to develop and test CSC OnDemand: An Innovative Online Learning Platform for Implementing Coordinated Specialty Care. The product builds on the findings of the Recovery After an Initial ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT Stroke affects overmillion patients in the U Swith an estimatedadditional cases of stroke occurring each yearOverof stroke survivors have spasticitya disorder of muscle tone that can cause striking impairments in functional movementPharmacologicalsurgical and physical treatments to manage spasticity haveat bestshort term efficacy and are confounded by side effectsIn this NI ...

PROJECT SUMMARYStroke is a major public health problem in the U Sand worldwideIt is defined as an area of brain damagegenerally due to the sudden occlusion of an artery in or leading to the brainStroke can cause weaknessnumbnessvisual disturbancespeech difficultybalance problemsand memory lossamong other symptomsWhile good treatments exist to limit stroke in the first few hours after occurrencefew ...

Abstract The overall goal of this project is to conduct preclinical studies on Novoour newly discovered bactericidal compoundAs drug resistance continues to spreadnew classes of antibiotics are needed to combat infections by pathogens such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureusMRSAand vancomycin resistant EnterococciVRENovois a novel class of peptidoglycan synthesis inhibitor with favorabl ...

The goal of this Phase I SBIR proposal is to demonstrate utility to all major pathogenic bacterial strains of SeLux s rapidlow costphenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testASTsystemfast AST or FASTUtilizing existing optical detectors and standard dried antibiotic microplatesand avoiding pitfalls of metabolic probesFAST will potentially transform therapy of infections by significantly accelerating ...

Project Summary AbstractThis project brings together an experiencedintegrated project team with complementary expertise to advance a new approach to treating melanomas that cannot cured by surgery and have spread in the bodyThe project attacks a new targetrenalasean endogenous protein that can function as a survival factorwhich becomes overexpressed in melanomaand plays a role in suppressing the b ...