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Project Summary Today s clinical learning environments do not provide the level of deliberate practicedirect supervisionand rigorous assessment and feedback needed to develop diagnostic reasoning expertiseClinical performance assessment emphasizes learner evaluation over learner developmentlacks rigor and utility for developmental purposesand clinical teachers have expressed particular difficulty ...

Project SummaryAbstract Our long term goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of CT imaging for millions of Americans across a broad range of abdominal diseaseDual energy CTDECTprovides powerful clinical diagnostic potential but remains heavily underutilized despite wide scanner availabilityDECT allows materials to be differentiated based on their relative X ray attenuation at low versus high e ...

There is an unmet need to inhibit the key cancer promoting transcription factor MYCboth c MYC and MYCNthat act downstream of many cell receptors and signal transcription pathways to activate genes for cancer cell resistance and tumor growthTo datesmall molecule inhibitors of MYC have remained elusiveIn our Phase I STTRCAwe developed a lead compoundSFwhich displays potent orthogonal inhibitory acti ...

Project SummaryAdoptive cell therapyACTis an emerging immunotherapy which shows significant promise in treating both leukemia and solid tumorsas well as certain infectious diseasesACT comprises the isolation and ex vivo expansion of cytotoxic T lymphocytesCTLsrecognizing epitopes of a mutated or aberrantly expressed protein present almost exclusively on the surface of a patient s tumor cellsTo mee ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantFast TrackInsulin remains the primaryand often the onlytreatment for typediabetes mellitusT DHowever it is associated with chronic iatrogenic hyperinsulinemiasecondary hyperlipidemiahigher incidence and severity of cardiovascular complicationsand life threatening hypoglycemia eventsA higher mortalityvsdue to cardiovascular complications were reported in insulin trea ...

AbstractThe treatment of large cartilage lesions is a difficult clinical problem for which there are few good solutionsLeft untreatedthese lesions tend to degenerate to chronic pain and osteoarthritisOAultimately requiring a total joint replacementFor patients suffering from knee OAandin particularunicompartmental OAunicondylar knee arthroplastyUKAis an available first line treatment option that p ...

ABSTRACTHarmful algal bloomsHABsare becoming frequent occurrences off the coasts of the United Stateswith specific instances in the coastal waters of the west coastthe Gulf of Mexicoand the Pacific OceanHistoricallyHABs have been associated with fish kills and marine mammal mortalitieshowevertheir effects on human health and economic loss due to HAB contamination of seafood are becoming more preva ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantPain management is a significant unmet medical needAnandamide is an endocannabinoid mediator that plays important roles in the regulation of painPrevious work has shown that endocannabinoid receptors located outside the central nervous systemCNSexert a powerful regulatory control over pain initiationThe biological actions of anandamide are stopped by the enzymefatty ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Clinical Sensors has developed a manufacturable prototype microfluidic sensor for measuring nitric oxide in whole bloodThis STTR Phase II project aims to complete several key aims necessary to commercialize this deviceincluding a clinical study where NO levels will be evaluated clinically in sepsisSepsis is the leading cause of death in non cardiac intensive care unitsICUsEach year ...

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