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The U.S. DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) was created in 1989 to manage the cleanup of large areas of environmentally contaminated sites. Since the closure of many of these sites, U.S. taxpayers have spent about $220 billion at 74 cleanup sites. However, these sites were the smallest and most manageable sites to clean. There are still over 40 sites that are deemed as eno ...

Electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and plugin hybrid electric vehicles (EVs, HEVs, and PHEVs) are emerging technologies that can significantly reduce petroleum usage in the transportation sector. Widespread adoption of electricdrive vehicles will lower automobile operation costs and can significantly decrease emissions of greenhouse gases. However, for these technologies to be successful ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Early diagnosis of infectious disease is critical to patient outcome. An important early question is - is it a fungus, a bacterium or a virus? A rapid answer to this question would allow preemptive treatment that cansave lives. The goal of this project is a rapid and inexpensive immunoassay that will use serum as a sample to broadly identify the presence of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Invasive candidiasis (IC) is one of the most serious threats to patients in a critical setting. With as many as 60,000 cases per year in the U.S., the total cost associated with IC in the U.S. may be as high as 2-4 billion/year. One of the most critical factors influencing patient outcome is early diagnosis. The goal of this project is a rapi and inexpensive i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a solid tumor and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. The 5-year survival rate of its victims is lt5%. There is increasing evidence that most solidtumors have a subpopulation of tumor-initiating cells termed cancer stem cells (CSCs). The inability to eradicate these CSCs is postulated to b ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetes affects more than 8% of Americans and costs over 174 billion in 2007 in USA. Recently bariatric surgery, such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, has been proposed for treating diabetic patients with obesity due to its hypoglycemic effect on postprandial blood glucose and significant weight loss. In this proposal, we propose a novel method of automated inte ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes and a leading cause of vision loss in the United States. Unfortunately, there is no FDA-approved pharmacotherapy for DR. Current treatments in clinical practice and trails, such as laser photocoagulation, corticosteroids and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents, are effective in som ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Calista Therapeutics has discovered a first-in-class, proprietary PDZ1-2 lead drug, AT010, that is being optimized and developed as an inhaled daily therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is a deadly inherited genetic disorder that disrupts chloride channel function, resulting in the buildup of sticky mucus in patient's lungs and other organs.CF patients hav ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic musculoskeletal pain creates a significant public health burden. Veterans are disproportionately affected by chronic musculoskeletal pain, and in particular, chronic low back pain (CLBP). The frequency and extent of co-occurrence of pain and PTSD, pain and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and all three conditions (Post-deployment Multi-symptom Disorder (PM ...

DESCRIPTION: Incremental improvements in label free screening technologies over the past decade have not produced the capability necessary to support the changing needs of drug discovery programs. Persistent artifacts related to non-specific binding, promiscuous binding, precipitation, complex binding, tubing retention, aggregation, and sub-optimally designed platforms continue to hinder progress ...