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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific hypertensive disorder that can lead to multi organ failure seizure and maternal death Preeclampsia is also responsible for as many as of premature births in the United States Although better neonatal care has improved the likelihood of preterm babies surviving many face increased mortality and serious long term mor ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Asthma exacerbations are a major cause of ER visits and hospitalizations with annual direct costs of approximately $billionyear in the USAViral infectionsin particular rhinoviralRVinfectionsare a major precipitant of asthma exacerbations in allergic asthmaticsAs there are overRV serotypes andfor nowno RV vaccinenovel strategies to inhibit RV induced airway inflammation are needed t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistance to HIV is a major threat to achieving long term viral suppression in HIV individuals Up to of newly infected individuals acquire HIV with resistance to at least one of the major antiretroviral classes and incomplete viral suppression and virologic failure are often associated with drug resistance Therefore current DHHS guideline recomme ...

Project Summary The overall goal of the proposed work is to develop a platform capable of delivering and monitoring adherenceproficiencyand safety of a home based simplified Tai Chi intervention for older adultsDuring Phase I of this Fast Track STTR project we will further develop a novel approach to assessing Tai Chi performance adherenceproficiencyand safety based on wearable sensor dataMetrics ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hazardous compounds in waters and soils are subject to a complex dynamic web of interactions among physical chemical and biological constituents in the natural environment Computational modeling has been proven indispensable to hazardous substances remediation particularly integrated modeling of pollutant hydrogeological fate and transport For the first t ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Melanoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and is estimated to account for overdeaths inin the United States aloneAlthough highly curable when detected earlytheyear survival rates decline precipitously for patients with regionaland metastaticmelanoma indicating a lack of efficacy of conventional therapiesand a strong need for novel therapies for this patient populationIn respons ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Overall Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive bacteria which possesses a multitude of virulence factors It is a frequent and severe pathogen in hospitals and of increasing concern in the community where it results in severe skin infections pneumonia bacterial endocarditis and sepsis A significant proportion of these infections are the result of methici ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Development of novel lung cancer therapeutics targeting the DNA damage response Abstract Lung tissue is constantly exposed to a wide variety of inhaled chemical agents While the majority of these maybe innocuous those that damage DNA have severe consequences Thus the DNA damage response DDR and DNA repair in these tissues is extremely important The vast ...

A NEW HOLOGRAPHIC D CAMERA FOR FUNDUS IMAGING Abstract In the United States retinal disease is the most common cause of visual impairment with age related macular degeneration AMD and diabetic retinopathy DR being the most common retinal diseases For each of the above conditions high resolution and three dimensional D imaging of the retina retinal vasculature choroid and or retinal ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs NSAIDs are among the most widely consumed pharmaceuticals but their prolonged use causes gastric injury and damage to the small intestine Previous work has shown that anandamide an endogenous endocannabinoid substance produced in the gastrointestinal GI mucosa plays an important role in epithelial homeostasis and re ...