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Summary VisionQuest Biomedical LLC VisionQuest has developed a diabetic retinopathy DR screening system EyeStar enabled by automated screening software DR RACS that was developed under the EY Phase II SBIR project Our product provides immediate feedback to the physician on the state of diabetic eye disease without burdening an eye care specialist to review those cases without retin ...

The objective of this research project is to update a web application Overcoming Addictions OA and enable it to be efficiently used by treatment providers in addition to its current use by the general public OA is an abstinence focused cognitive behavioral intervention based on the four point program for SMART Recovery www smartrecovery org We have already demonstrated the effectiveness of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Both type and type diabetes involve loss of insulin producing pancreatic cells resulting in inadequate insulin secretion to control blood glucose Eventually daily injections of insulin are required to avoid the constellation of pathologies that arise from hyperglycemia While transplantation of cadaveric pancreatic islets that contain cells has been s ...

Proprietary This proposal includes trade secrets and other proprietary or confidential information of Highland Instruments and is being provided for use by the National Institutes of Health NIH for the sole purpose of evaluating this SBIR proposal No other rights are conferred This proposal and the trade secrets and other proprietary or confidential information contained herein shall further ...

Project summary Therapeutic strategies that seek to stimulate adaptive immunity for the treatment of cancer have recently shown convincing clinical efficacy Immune checkpoint inhibitors CPIs for example reactivate a patient s own T cells to eliminate tumors by blocking interactions that cause tumor infiltrating lymphocytes TILs to become exhausted CPIs have demonstrated remarkable success ...

Project Summary Abstract Pharmacy and Therapeutic Pandamp T Committees within healthcare organizations are challenged in developing off label use policies for two main reasons Examples of effective internal policies that have been developed at other organizations are generally not available for guidance and little evidence based research has been done on factors that lead to optimized of ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Marijuana Breath Analyzer Enforcement of drugged driving laws has attracted significant attention due to increase in drug related incidents and the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana in some states Studies have shown that marijuana use can impair a driverandapos s judgment Next to alcohol marijuana is the second most frequently found substance in the bodie ...

Abstract Reverberant spaces create major problems for hearing impaired listeners Reverberation reduces the sound quality and intelligibility of speech for such listeners especially if they are hearing aid HA users Moreover reverberation reduces the effectiveness of many otherwise useful signal processing methods such as speech enhancement algorithms because reverberation introduces additi ...

Project Summary Abstract The prevalence of diabetes in the United States and world wide is increasing dramatically and new drugs that can protect or restore the function of insulin producing pancreatic beta cells are urgently needed For decades diabetes drug discovery efforts have been hampered by two things the lack of abundant human beta cells for drug screening and the difficultly an ...

Project Summary Abstract The prevalence of diabetes in the United States and world wide is increasing dramatically and new drugs that can protect or restore the function of insulin producing pancreatic beta cells are urgently needed For decades drug discovery efforts in this space have been hampered by the lack of consistent and abundant human beta cells for drug screening The advent of beta c ...