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PROJECT SUMMARY In this Phase I Small Business Technology TransferSTTRprojecta team of researchers at Cincinnati Childrenandapos s Hospital Medical CenterCCHMCwill work with the engineering team at NeoViewIncto design and build novel body coil and incubator prototypes for aTesla Neonatal Intensive Care UnitNICUMRI systemThese components will play a central role in NeoViewandapos s neonatal MRI pro ...

Falls are a significant source of early morbidity and mortality in the aging populationyet the neurologicalsensoryand motor changes that lead to increased fall risk often escape early identification and interventionVital signs are commonly used in clinical settings to assess the cardiovascular systemblood pressureheart rateimmune systembody temperatureand the respiratory systemrespiratory rateto e ...

Abstract Early detection is one of the keys to winning the war on cancerBecause current imaging and tissue biopsy based diagnosis are invasiveexpensiveand in some cases dangerousthey are impractical as an early cancer screenas well as therapeutic and recurrence monitoringLiquid biopsy is an exciting new form of biopsy that can complement cancer detection assays from the analysis of bodily fluids s ...

Principal Investigators for Small BusinessDiscoveryBioMedIncDBMand Monell Chemical Senses Center Project Summary Abstract Bitter taste in foods and medicines presents a barrier to overcoming global public health challengesfood insecuritypoor nutritional healthand poor compliance with medication useparticularly among children and the elderlySugar and saltthe mainstays to address these challengesfur ...

SummaryThe objective is to designdevelopand clinically assess DiSCERNa standardized telemedicine tool for identifying patients with Parkinson s diseasePDwho would benefit from advanced therapiesATand determining when AT recipients need therapy adjustmentsOnce chronic PD medication usage results in motor fluctuations and dyskinesias and all non invasive therapies have been exhaustedATe gdeep brain ...

Stroke is the world’s greatest healthcare burden for which few treatment options are available. The long-term objective of the applicant, Nervive, Inc., is to bring to market a non-invasive medical device, the VitalFlow stimulator, as an emergency treatment for ischemic stroke. The VitalFlow is a novel technology that activates the autonomic components of the facial nerve using pulsed magnetic e ...

Project SummaryAbstractThis proposal presents Phase II of Mercury Biomedandapos s plan for commercializing the new and innovative WarmSmart technology to more effectively keep surgical patients normothermicWarmSmart embodies several breakthrough concepts in bioheat transfer to manage core temperatureWe are building a costcompetitive patient warming technology that will be superior to existing tech ...

Project Summary BehaviorCloud is a unified cloud platform where biomedical researchers can collectanalyzeand share preclinical research dataspecifically behavioral and phenotype data from animal modelsTraditionally researchers collect data from many disparate instruments and store data on PCs running single license softwareRaw data is stored across several locationsanalysis is restricted to the PC ...

Abstract The goal of this SBIR project is to develop an innovative SA PCPE PCR technology that can simultaneously genotype multiple mutated mononucleotide STRs in a vast background of wild type DNAwhich will be employed to develop an assay for liquid biopsy of high frequency microsatellite instabilityMSI HcancerThe hallmark of MSI H is extensive instability in short tandem repeatSTRwhich alters th ...

LVAD use is increasing for both bridge and destination applicationsbut the need for right ventricular assist is apparenteven in patients selected to avoid this complicationThese patients usually receive a temporary right ventricular assist deviceRVADwith a short livedexternal pump when the need becomes apparentalthough the survival rate is superior with a pre operatively planned biventricular impl ...