Award Data

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Approach specific Multi GPU Multi tool High realism Neurosurgery Simulation Surgical treatment of neurological diseases is complicated and requires advanced training However compressed internship schedules in hospitals creates a challenge to young surgeons to master techniques needed for such complex procedures Surgical simulators are powerful tools to p ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The broad long term objective of the proposed research is to develop and market a commercial software product that can be used to facilitate the analysis of genetic changes in order to elucidate chromosomal abnormalities that underlie diseases such as autism spectrum disorder bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Recent technological advances allow samples of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Avatar is developing HIV vaccine immunogens based on dityrosine DT crosslinking of soluble native Env gp trimers Several of the most potent broadly neutralizing Abs andquot bnAbsandquot preferentially bind native Env trimers and a trimeric immunogen thus would both present a wide range of key neutralizing epitopes and simultaneously focus immune responses away fro ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Rapid Portable HIV Detection and Monitoring System The long term objectives of this project are Develop a prototype of a rapid portable instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of Human Immunodeficiency Viruses HIVandapos s in samples of patient blood particularly in low resource settings Carry out a pilot study to establish the effectivene ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Significant obstacles exist in care delivery that prevents meaningful utilization of mental health services by consumers who experience health disparities Specifically individuals facing isolation due to linguistic literacy or cultural bariers often face challenges in procuring mental health care These challenges are in part due to the medical and mental systemsan ...

Addressing PTSD and related stress reactions by Service Members and Veterans is one of our country's most important public health challenges. Art therapy has been recognized as a powerful tool enabling"trauma survivors to symbolically express, process and contain feelings they find difficult or impossible to put in to words"(Buk, 2009). Enabling Service Members and Veterans to tell their st ...

The ability to readily and rapidly detect the concentration of the 9- and 12-amino acid oxytocin analogs will significantly enhance the efficacy of understanding the conditions under which oxytocin is employed by the body. Ionica Sciences will take advantage of recent miniaturization of highly sensitive instrumentation that allows field application of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), a sp ...

Wound management becomes increasingly challenging due to bacterial infections, especially from epidemic drug-resistant strains. To address this problem, Agave BioSystems proposes to develop a RANT (Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics) breadboard system built upon the modules successfully established in Phase I of this work. The proposed breadboard system will use genomic sequencing data generated ...

Recent studies have shown that embedded systems are extremely vulnerable to security attacks. Some published exploits include remote hijacking of the electronic systems in a modern car and using IP phones and smart televisions to perform covert surveillance of their owners. In this project, we propose a protection system that automatically detects and removes vulnerabilities from embedded software ...

The goal of our work is to defend (legacy) embedded systems firmware with entirely new defensive capabilities proven up in prior DARPA-sponsored research at Columbia University. We invented the Software Symbiote, a host-based defensive technology that injects intrusion detection functionality within the firmware of a (legacy) embedded system and that senses the unauthorized modification of the dev ...