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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapy The product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computing The project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapyThe product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computingThe project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for a produc ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant st Playable Productions and Union College propose to develop a commercializable product combining physical exercise and cognitive activities through interactive gaming on a stationary bicycle to help prevent cognitive decline and dementia in older adults The Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System iPACES developed by Union Collegeandapos s Health ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women between the ages of and and responsible for deaths annually If treated early five year survival rates for patients in the U S are between and but drop to once metastatic breast cancer has developed Thus there is a great need to develop more effective treatment strategies fo ...

ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer PC is an extremely aggressive malignancy with one of the worst prognoses of all cancers with a median survival of less than one year and an overall year survival of andlt With marked resistance to chemo and radiotherapies surgery is the only curative option In patients with localized disease and no lymph node or extra pancreatic metastases complete surgical ...

Project Summary Abstract The long term objective of this project is the generation of a universal drug discovery platform based on protein arginine methylation mechanisms involved in human disease The importance of protein arginine methylation in the context of human disease has become clear in the last few years with the realization that protein arginine methyltransferases and the target prot ...

Lack of recruitment of qualified research participants into clinical trials remains to be one of the most important issues in clinical research Studies often struggle to meet recruitment goals on time resulting in costly time extensions underpowered results and in some cases early termination Many reasons attribute to suboptimal recruitment including the challenges related to informing and c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Traverse Biosciences Inc is a pre clinical stage drug development company working to commercialize new chemical entities which act to resolve inflammatory conditions through pleiotropic host modulation of pathologically unrestrained matrix metalloproteinases MMPs and pro inflammatory cytokines The companyandapos s lead drug candidate TRB N is a proprietary chemic ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a novel device for respiratory therapy that uses interactive gaming and music to encourage patient compliance In order to maintain pulmonary health many post operative surgery patients as well as people with quadriplegia and other spinal cord injuries high level motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The global market for nanoparticles NP in biotechnology drug development and drug delivery was estimated to be $ B for and is expected to reach more than $ B by The two most active areas of product development are NPs for drug delivery and for in vivo imaging In these applications it is often critical that he outer surfaces of NPs are functiona ...