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The company has developed a silk-derived protein (SDP) for use as a novel ophthalmic formulation excipient that will help to treat the ocular injuries and dry eye pathology that affects over 40 million Americans annually and hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The SDP excipient is designed to enhance tear formulation comfort, longevity, and overall ocular health. This proposal builds on the ...

Thelack of low cost,maintenance-free,easy-to-wear personal samplingtechnology hinders assessment ofchemicalexposuresespecially in deployed military populations.We are developing a silicone wristband for use as a passivemonitor forenvironmentalexposure. Silicone wristband personal dosimeters (PDs) are uniquein being ableto measure both volatile(VOCs) and semi-volatile(SVOCs)compounds,capturing bioa ...

Thegoal is to develop asoftwaretool that implementsa novelapproach applicableto fitgeneral pharmacologic, toxicology, or other biomedical data, that mayexhibita non-monotonic dose-responserelationship for which thecurrent parametricmodels fail. Thesoftwareexplores dose-responserelationships using both monotonicand non-monotonicmodels,and estimates theassociated doseresponsecurves,which can further ...

22 million workers go to work each day in damaging noise. Noise-induced hearing loss remains a problem in US industry and in the US military despite our best preventative efforts. A significant roadblock in preventing hearing loss is the lack of an accu

To extend the usage of tourniquets during a war, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) proposes to develop an innovative limb cooling device charged with two-phase working fluid, which is able to rapidly cool down the limb and keep the limb temperatur

Care for the wounded Warfighters in austere and remote settings makes medical knowledge, skills and efficiency of the military medical professional paramount. For wounds that extend deep into internal anatomy, proper visualization of internal anatomy can

The goal of medical simulation-based training such as high-fidelity manikin simulators, part task trainers, and screen-based virtual patients, is to approximate real-life treatment experiences without risk to live patients. While the use of sensors has ma

The DoD Medical Health Systems (MHS)seeksameans to collect, transport,and share patientcareinformation between disparateelectronicmedical record systems in austerelocations that lacksufficient or reliabletelecommunicationsconnectivity. Thesolution they seek must bereliablein deliveringlargeamounts of patient medical information, durablein demandingmilitaryenvironments,adaptableto current and evolv ...

Ensuring military field water supplies are safe for human consumption is of critical importance to the United States Armed Forces. However, despite the need to routinely monitor water supplies the availability of field-ready tests is limited. In 2019 the

Veterans with amputations are relatively common as a result of war and peace keeping efforts. The civilian amputee population is also steadily growing as a result of vascular disease. For many years, there has been an emphasis on the development of prosth