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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this SBIR is to develop an innovative adolescent primary health care delivery model for use in primary care that overcomes barriers of health care provider time, skill and teen engagement when providing effective tobacco use reduction counseling. This will be achieved by creating a web-based counseling module that will provide interactive, technolog ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the USA, about 36 million adults suffer from hearing loss and three out of every 1,000 children are born deaf or hard-of-hearing. When conventional hearing aids provide no appreciable benefit, implantable electronicdevices using electrode arrays inside the cochlea are a viable solution. With these cochlear implants, the profoundly deaf achieve reasonable wor ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): GlycoMira Therapeutics has developed safe and effective anti-inflammatory glycosaminoglycan derivatives and proposes to test the feasibility of using its lead compound to treat or prevent oral mucositis. Mucositis is acommon and debilitating complication of cancer treatment. Cancer patients undergoing radiation or chemotherapy often develop this painful inflam ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common, potentially fatal genetic disorders in humans with an incidence of 1 in every 500-1000 individuals. The majority of ADPKD cases (85%) are caused by mutations in the PKD1 gene, which encodes polycystin-1. ADPKD is a systemic disorder that often leads to kidney failure and extrarenal ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a completely new, low cost and robust bactericidal urinary 100% silicone Foley catheter with a gt3-6 month shelf-life, that will utilize electromodulated delivery of nitric oxide (NO) for up to 45-60 d to serve as a potent antimicrobial/antibiofilm agent. The first generation device will possess a stable inorganic nitrit salt reservoir within on lume ...

? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a term applied to a group of inherited disorders characterized by the presence of cysts in the kidney although multiple organs are typically affected. Renal pathologies found inessentially all forms of PKD include increased fluid secretion, matrix remodeling, cellular proliferation, and apoptosis, with a altered differen ...

ABSTRACT The long-term product goal of this project is a small molecule therapeutic for choroidal neovascularization (CNV, the hallmark of wet age-related macular degradation), an abnormal growth of blood vessels in the choroid layer of the eye that results in damage to the retina and consequent blindness. Our lead compound is the natural product sterculic acid, which has been shown to inhibit ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of Phase I is to produce a method that will generate, identify and clone a catalog of protein-protein interactions in a single rapid experiment. In this proposal we will model the technology using antibody-antigen interactions. Recombinant antibody libraries against a proteome could be produced prior to any need, and then desired affinity r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): More than 190,000 people suffer from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the US each year, with mortality rates from 25-40% with the best treatment. In addition, there are over 12 million patients with chronic lung disease. These patients typically have 1-3 acute exacerbations of their disease state per year that cause additional short term respirat ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Capnometers can fail in a number of ways that are not detectable using current static calibration testing procedures. These failures could include leaks in the sample line, a weak sample pump, inadequate dynamic response, flow restriction and flow obstruction. Failure of a capnometer during critical care procedures such as sedation and anesthesia can be life th ...