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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT With the increased use of mobile health (mHealth) apps to improve health outcomes, protecting private health data is becoming increasingly important. These mHealth apps are offered by healthcare providers and used by patients for various reasons such as paying bills, scheduling appointments, sending messages to providers, accessing lab results, and viewing prescriptions an ...

Implicit bias (IB) negatively impacts the medical care and health outcomes of Black patients. Physician IB compromises the quality of patient-physician communication, eroding trust and confidence, impairing treatment decisions and adherence, and causing patient harm. Studies show that non-Black physicians, on average, have moderate levels of IB toward Black patients. Since most Black patients see ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In this Phase II SBIR, HomesRenewed Ventures, LLC (HRV Washington, DC) will build on our previous efforts to expand and validate an interactive mobile application (APP) for guiding home modifications (environmental interventions) critical to Aging in Place (AiP). Home modifications (HM) are associated with falls preventions, improved activities of daily living (ADLs), and emotional ...

Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies bind to specific regions of proteins called epitopes, which elicit cellular responses that treat or cure disease. Discovering therapeutic antibodies traditionally requires costly and labor- intensive, laboratory-based screening experiments. Computational approaches that select antibodies with the most desirable pharmaceutical properties are thus poised to improve ...

Abstract Diarrheal disease is a major health issue worldwide resulting in nearly 500,000 deaths annually in children under 5 years of age. Those who survive have higher risk of stunted growth and cognitive development. Identification of the gastrointestinal (GI) pathogens that cause diarrheal disease helps guide effective treatment. Currently, in the developed world, this is done using multiplexed ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT) market is projected to surpass the Technitium-99m market by 2025, with an emphasis on metastatic prostate cancer, neuroendocrine tumors, and lymphoma. Driven by well- tolerated treatments and fewer side-effects, experts have estimated 150 new theranostic centers will be needed in the U.S. to deliver an estimated 50,000–200,000 treatm ...

This Direct to Phase II SBIR Application is responsive to NHLBI Small Business Topics of Special Interest (therapeutics) of high programmatic interest. Preterm infants are at great risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). BPD leads to a significant impact on lifelong respiratory health. BPD is an oxidative stress- dependent disease that inhibits alveolarization and induces a combinatio ...

Pertussis (Whooping cough) is a highly contagious, airborne disease that is rapidly re-emerging as a serious public health threat in the United States. Despite high vaccine coverage, annual reported cases in the U.S. have been increasing recently, with an average of 25,000 per year from 2010-2019. This is a level unseen since the early 1960s. Diagnosis of pertussis is challenging because its early ...

ABSTRACT Influenza (flu) virus, an NIAID category C priority pathogen, causes a respiratory disease resulting in over 200,000 hospitalizations and ~ 36,000 deaths per year in the US, while global influenza pandemics have resulted in as many as 50-100 million deaths worldwide. To address this threat to public health, annual vaccination is recommended for all individuals aged over 6 months in the US ...

Abstract Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal muscle disease with an incidence of 1 in 5000 males. DMD results from mutations in the gene encoding dystrophin, a 427 kDa scaffolding protein responsible for providing a mechanical link between the muscle fiber actin cytoskeleton and laminin in the extracellular matrix. The α7β1 integrin is a transmembrane linkage system in skeletal and card ...