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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the application of brain stimulation devices to treat a variety of movement disorders such as Parkinsonandapos s disease PD and other neuropathologies Present noninvasive brain stimulation technologies suffer from fundamental limitations and have yet to reach the level of efficacy of invasive methods such as de ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Errors in the administration of medications to residents of long term care facilities LTCFs threaten resident safety and add significant unnecessary costs to the healthcare system Use of unit dose medications that require LTCF staff to manually sort and assemble specific patient medications times per day can result in error rates as high as with of total errors ha ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Optogenetic tools for activating and silencing specific neurons embedded within dense brain networks in a temporally precise fashion using light are key to understanding the roles that specific neurons play in behavior neural computation and disease In our Phase I SBIR Ferro Solutions and the Boyden lab at MIT collaborated to develop a fully wirelessly powered and ...

DESCRIPTION Undesired platelet activation can be result of many common pathologies or interventions Arterial thrombosis and the acute ischemic events that follow such as myocardial infarction and stroke are among the leading causes of death incapacitation and rising health care costs in the developed world Therefore antiplatelet drugs have significant market share and clinical importance ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a therapeutic acting specifically against Helicobacter pylori the causative agent of peptic ulcer and gastric carcinoma Roughly every other person carries the pathogen and there are an estimated cases annually of active infection in the US The currently used triple therapy is a combination of a proton pump inhibitor and broad ...

DESCRIPTION Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women with over one million new cases reported in the world each year A diagnosis of breast cancer is frequently and understandably associated with high levels of psychosocial distress While support groups and stress management interventions have increased social support reduced psychosocial and physiological stress improved active co ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Tuberculosis TB disease which results from infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mtb is a leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in children andlt years old worldwide In TB endemic regions in which the vast majority of the worldandapos s annual million adult cases of TB disease reside children andlt years old account for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The overall goal of this project is to discover novel antibiotics to combat important drug resistant pathogens We are running out of treatment options for pathogens such as S aureus MRSA vancomycin resistant Enterococci VRE multidrug resistant P aeruginosa A baumannii ESBL and New Delhi metallo b lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae and M tuberculosis Only novel ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cardiac failure is the, largest single cause of mortality in the United States today. With an increase in the use of long-term cardiac assist devices, there is also a need for the short-term "bridge to recovery" application. This application is intended to provide a low-cost temporary support for patients whose heart is capable of recovering. This "patient scr ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I SBIR application is presented by Aeris Therapeutics, Inc. of Woburn, MA. It will examine the feasibility of using a novel enzyme based-system to produce safe, clinically-effective pleurodesis for treatment of malignant pleural effusions. Preliminary data, summarized in this application, suggest that an enzymatic system has the potential for bei ...