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This proposal is a response to the Rural and Community Development needs outlined in the RFP to focus on efforts needed to enhance human capital development, build earnings capacity, increase labor force participation and/or promote job creation to the most vulnerable populations in rural communities. The Navajo community drastically underperforms the nation in creation of businesses and jobs for ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Clinical ChallengeIn acute traumain the civilian settinghemorrhage is the second most leading cause of deathIn the military settingof potentially preventable deaths are caused by hemorrhage due to traumaof civilian andof military mortality caused by traumatic hemorrhage occurs pre hospitalizationAdverse outcome in trauma patients during prehospital resuscitation is due to ...

PROJECT SUMMARYAcute Respiratory Distress SyndromeARDSis a devastating syndrome that afflicts more thanpatients in United States alone and has an unacceptably high mortality rate ofCurrently there are no therapies that address the loss of lung vascular barrier integrityvascular leakage and alveolar flooding that are critical features of ARDS pathobiologyThe PI was the first to demonstrate that sph ...

ABSTRACTThe Aurora Kinase FamilyAKFcomprises heavily pursued therapeutic targets for cancer because of their intimate involvement in cell division and tumor progressionNumerous therapeutic campaigns have been initiated against the AKFwith promising clinical successes emanating from strategies targeting either Aurora A or Aurora BHoweverthe US Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve a cance ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Only about dozen mass spectrometryMSprotein tests have been translated into clinical laboratories since the MALDI and ESI approaches were developed thirty years agoWhile the cost and complexity of these tests are important factors impeding their clinical adoptionnew content generated via proteoforms detection could provide the impetus for further development and translationOur rece ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Genotyping of cancer has become the standard of carewhere specific mutations in cancer driving genes have been shown to indicate sensitivity or resistance to targeted treatmentsSampling of cell free DNAcfDNAin blood plasma could provide a non invasive means of performing this genotypingbut current methods are too complexslowdaysand expensivehundreds of dollarsto make use of this in ...

Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of usespecially those who work in certain industriessuch as petroleum extraction and refinery facilitiesmining industryand fertilizer factoriesVarious sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the needbut a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple chemical pollut ...

Nearlymillion Americans ageand olderneed treatment for a substance use disorderSUDWhile onlyof individuals requiring treatment for a SUD receive itan estimated two thirds see a primary care or urgent care provider everymonthsPrimary care providers are in a unique position to perform ScreeningBrief Interventionand Referral to TreatmentSBIRTWith Phase I contract fundingPro Change developed and pilot ...

PROJECT SUMMARYThis project s goal is to develop an innovative cost effective robotic platform for fast on demand pharmacy production of pediatric drugs as individually tailored palatable gummy dosage formsMedication adherence is notoriously low among children due to difficulty swallowing pills and rejection of bad tasting medicationsAlthough some common pediatric drugs have flavored liquid formsp ...

Combined in vivo and ex vivo three dimensionalDwhole brain imaging of non transgenic and transgenic animal models holds the promise of novel insights into neural network connectivity patternsWith regard to ex vivo light microscopic imaging ofD whole brain datasetsthe best approach is brain clearing followed by whole brain light sheet microscopyLSMbecause of its unique combination of speedD resolvi ...