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Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a serious condition that affects about 4% of the population. During sleep, the tongue can fall into the oropharynx and occlude the airways Patients with this condition suffer many instances of apneas (complete cessation of breathing) and hypopneas (period of abnormally low respiratory rate). The apnea- hypopnea index (AHI) gives the number of such episodes per hour ...

AbstractThe incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) in the United States has grown dramatically over the past two decades. Efficient and effective resources and materials for training neonatal care providers in empirically based practices for NOWS are greatly needed. The goal of the proposed Phase I STTR project is to develop a highly accessible mobile/web-based multimedia curricul ...

ABSTRACT / PROJECT SUMMARY Wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the developed world. Anti-VEGF therapy is currently the gold standard for wet AMD treatment. However, up to 50% of patients in the long term have a suboptimal response to anti-VEGF therapy. A better alternative method for treatment of AMD is urgently needed. We have recently inve ...

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 Anemia is characterized by low blood hemoglobin levels and has high prevalence affecting over one-third of the worldandapos;s population or about 2.5 billion people. Anemia has numerous causes, including nutritional deficiencies, oncologic conditions, and hematologic diseases, including hemoglobin gene variants. More than 7% of the worldandapos;s population carry hemoglobin gene va ...

Rapid Assessment of Drug Abuse from Municipal Wastewater by Smart Surface-Enhanced RamanScattering Technique PROJECT SUMMARY Rapid assessment of drug abuse from municipal wastewater is a new strategy that can overcome many limitations of traditional surveillance technologies by providing a more rapid and objective measure of drug use, which can alert communities about raising problems in their ear ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - huESC HTS2 - human Toxic stress effects in 1st trimester pregnancy leads to $10s of billions of US health care costs/year and is a significant part of the $2.5-4B/year US Developmental and Reproductive Technology (DART industry. Current DART techniques use slow, expensive pregnant rodent tests, or tests of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that are cultured to lose “stemness” and ...

Among the 1.7 million new cases of breast cancer diagnosed globally each year, 15-20% are triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which has an aggressive phenotype with high metastatic capability and poor prognosis. However, current therapeutics for TNBC have unpredictable efficacy, poor biomarker availability, serious side effects, and the development of treatment resistance. The goal of this propo ...

Project Summary Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is a major complication of retinal detachments and is responsible for most of the failures in retinal reattachment surgeries. About 10% of retinal detachment patients suffer from PVR. These patients often have poor visual outcome despite multiple surgeries. Our previous work on inhibition of PVR has focused on pharmacological intervention concu ...

ABSTRACT This Phase STTR Phase I proposal aims to engineer a synthetic metabolic pathway in a microbial host to produce UDCA and related compounds. The proposed work has high intellectual merit for the following reasons: (i) UDCA biosynthesis does not occur in any organism whose cultivation can be scaled to meet global demand, (ii) UDCA requires a multi-organism biosynthetic pathway (animal cholic ...