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Summary Worldwide, only 1 out of 70 patients with corneal endothelial dystrophies and injuries receive a corneal transplant due to the limited corneal donor pool, the need for advanced surgical facilities and talent, and expense. RashmiVu is developing a stem cell based regenerative technology that addresses this large unmet global need through a paradigm shift, wherein treatment could be as simpl ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Methadone remains a cornerstone of treatment for opioid use disorders (OUD). Daily or frequent supervised treatment with visual confirmation of ingestion (directly-observed therapy or “DOT”), is the standard of care for methadone treatment in federally licensed opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in the United States. DOT ensures adherence and mitigates the risk of medication pois ...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease. The greatest treatment potential lies in early stages before irreversible brain damage occurs. Early treatment requires early detection of the disease. Imaging holds great promise for capturing early signs of AD. This capability can be substantially strengthened by integrating neuroimages of different modalities that characteri ...

Obstetricians measure fetal heartrate (FHR) and uterine contractions to evaluate fetal health during pregnancy and labor. This monitoring is performed to decrease the development of complications while minimizing the need for unnecessary obstetric interventions and is especially important for women with high-risk pregnancies. However, many women, especially in rural areas, do not have the time or ...

Project Summary Immunoregulation, i.e., balanced expression of regulatory and effector T cells, is thought to be compromised in modern high-income settings due in part to reduced contact with commensal and environmentally derived bacteria, also known as “old friends”. Failed immunoregulation is thought to be one factor contributing to recent increases in stress-related and chronic inflammatory ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Lack of exercise is a major cause of secondary health conditions, especially for people with paralysis, for whom participation in physical activity is especially difficult. Hybrid functional electrical stimulation (H- FES) exercise enables vigorous, total body physical activity for people with paralysis. However, existing H-FES devices are neither affordable nor accessible ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The ability of dying cells to activate antigen presenting cells (APCs) is carefully controlled to avoid unwarranted inflammatory responses. Thus, tumor cells avoid aggravating APCs by efficiently simulating regular dying cells which following phagocytosis do not trigger inflammatory responses required for efficient cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) priming. However, dying tumor cells co ...

ABSTRACT VISA-IS/US GAMES The Issue: Many Hispanic youth face culturally related challenges such as discrimination, being perceived as a “threat” by White and Black Americans, having to juggle and reconcile their heritage and US cultural systems, and acculturation conflicts with parents. These cultural challenges are also related to schooling: in the US, school “success” is often defined i ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT CeleFlux is developing a medical device which enables urologists to provide long-lasting, minimally invasive urethral reconstruction to treat male urethral stricture - via endoscopic delivery of a temporary tissue graft implant. Urethral stricture disease progressively narrows the urethral lumen, similar to a band of scar tissue. This results in painful and frequent urinat ...

Project Summary: The main goal of this research project is to develop a new line of new stereotaxic devices for small animal research that outperforms existing devices in terms of accuracy, reproducibility, and ease of use. Advancing a tool such as an electrode, injection pipette or optical fiber through a small hole in the cranium, sometimes over long distances, and placing it precisely in a part ...