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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The clinical significance of ocular angiogenesis is enormous, due to the fact that in the western hemisphere, retinal neovascularization resulting from diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of new blindness in young patients, and choroidal neovascularization (CNV) resulting from AMD is the chief cause of severe and irreversible loss of vision in elderly ...

DESCRIPTION: The specific objective of this STTR Phase II research and development project is to provide an optimized cellular therapy regimen for treating hypoxic-ischemic (HI) injury and its related outcomes in neonates. Pre- clinical studies performed in a rat pup model of HI injury as part of the funded Phase I STTR grant, point to benefit when Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells (MAPC), a plur ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A rapid, noninvasive, and accurate, point-of-care device to diagnose and exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) remains an unmet need, especially for patients with conditions that activate inflammatory and coagulation pathways and therefore predispose to PE. These conditions include surgery, cancer, age >70 years, prolonged hospitalization, hemodialysis, connective ti ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is crucial for complex issues such as drug delivery, pathogenesis of chronic neurological diseases involving BBB dysfunction (e.g., brain tumors, ischemia, hypoxia, brain edema, multiple sclerosis, and meningitis) and issues related to bio-defense. Since the BBB selectively (by specific transport mechanisms) excludes most blood-bor ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past twenty-five years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of children and adolescents presenting to emergency departments (EDs) for psychiatric issues. Given that youth mental health issues account for 1.6% - 5.0% of all ED visits, and that Emergency Medicine physicians are the first to interact with these youth, the assessment of psychiatric i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Novel Intervention for Amyloid-Induced Neuroinflammation Extracellular deposition of the amyloid a-protein (Aa) in brain is a prominent pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders. Fibrillar Aa deposition in the cerebral vasculature, a condition known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), is also commonly found in AD. Additionally, se ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Novel Intervention for Colitis The scope of the current proposal is to determine whether administration of an apoE mimetic peptide, COG112, improves clinical, histological and inflammatory outcomes in clinically relevant paradigms of colitis. Specifically, we will employ the acute Citrobacter rodentium (C. rodentium) model, an acute Dextran Sulfate Sodium (DSS) ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Degenerative joint disease accounts for substantial human suffering at tremendous social and economic cost. While prosthetic joint replacement is a well-established procedure, a finite life span makes this treatment unacceptable for younger or active individuals who often require progressively complicated revision surgeries. The goal of this Phase I STTR is to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2005, 72,000 women that underwent breast surgery had to have a second re-excision surgery due to incomplete removal of the cancer during the first surgery. Needing a second surgery means increased cancer recurrence, patient anxiety, complications, and cost. Currently, surgeons have no readily available, cost efficient, intraoperative instruments that ensure ...

A number of simulataneous trends (ever-increasing network speeds and throughput, escalating sophistication of attacks, regulatory initiatives, and integration of networks within and without the enterprise) can cause both bottlenecks and quality-of-service degradation within the firewalls of computing systems used by the DOE and large corporations. This project will develop an advanced, scalable, ...