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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to provide an affordable mobile digital pathology solution to pathologists in order to facilitate their clinical practices in disease diagnosis, peer consultations, tumor board preparations, research and education. The low-cost smartphone based portable pathology slide scanner is a compleme ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase-I project is in the development of low cost, environmentally-friendly coating materials for corrosion prevention. Corrosion is a significant global issue, resulting in high maintenance and repair costs. Current anti-corrosion coatings need an improvement in effective barrier against water or moisture. A ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate novel approaches for biopolymer materials that uniquely enable oxygen incorporation into hydrogel dressings to improve and accelerate chronic wound healing. The proposed work differs drastically from other research programs and commercial efforts to use oxygen in chronic wound healing as it is the first to combine oxyg ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the reduction in the cost of renewable energy. The dramatic decline in the cost of wind energy over the last several decades has been fueled by the ever increasing turbine size and the introduction of new manufacturing methods and materials. However, the industry is approaching the limits of this trend due to the increased wear and tear of ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a point-of-care (POC) blood chemistry test that can measure multiple analytes simultaneously with a single drop of blood. Blood chemistry tests are the most frequently ordered tests by physicians. This proposed lab-on-a-chip and associated analyzer for blood chemistry tests will benefit society by improving the quality of health care delivery and reducing cos ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to revolutionize the way that woven textiles are designed and manufactured. The textile industry is currently organized around fixed catalogs of fabrics, with significant barriers to the introduction of new products, including limited access to industrial equipment. The project will create ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project comes from addressing a demand in many parts of the world for a scalable technological solution for managers of nature resources to deal with human-animal conflicts and rapid deforestation. Natural resources have large and sometimes surprising ecosystem impact. Even the direct economic value o ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in addressing blood clots in the pulmonary artery. Venous thrombosis, comprising deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), occurs with an incidence of approximately 1 per 1000 annually in adult populations. Estimates suggest that 60k -100k Americans die of DVT/PE (also called ...

Abstract Summary Arteriovenous fistulas AVFs are the preferred vascular access mode for hemodialysis patients but of AVFs fail to mature and only of mature AVFs are patent after year Vascular access failure including AVFs results from neointimal hyperplasia and contributes to andgt $ billion USD annual costs from vascular access failure including of hemodialysis patient hosp ...

Project Summary Abstract The proposal addresses NHLBI Topic of Special Interest HLS Development of mechanical circulatory support devices for individuals with congenital heart disease and single ventricle physiology after Fontan surgical palliation The design was specifically stimulated by the requirements outlined to Perfusion Solutions Inc PSI by pediatric and congenital surgeon Dr P ...