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Despite the myriad major advances in cardiologythe prognosis for patients with severemedically refractive heart failureHFis exceedingly poorApproximatelydeaths occur annually in patients with HF who have endured an impaired quality of life often accompanied by significant economic and personal losses due to recurrent hospitalizationsAt leastof these deaths were directly related to severe heart fai ...

The long term objective of this project is to leverage mobile technologies and crowdsourcing to create a new paradigm of evidence based treatment delivery and disseminationas current methods are often insufficientThe project seeks to refine and assess OC Goa HIPAA compliant web based clinician portal and patient side mobile application designed to increase patient adherence to evidence based treat ...

PROJECT SUMMARY There is need for an artificial oxygenOcarrier to substitute for banked blood in settings wherestored blood is unavailablepre hospital care transportaustere environmentsundeveloped countriesorundesirabletransfusion risk exceeds benefitTo address this needwe developedErythroMerEMa first inclass nano cyte blood substituteEM is a deformablecross linked polymeric nanoparticle that inco ...

The Point PartialA Ratcheting Prosthetic Partial FingerUsing Advanced Rapid Manufacturing Technology Project SummaryAbstract The goal of the proposed project is to develop a purely mechanicalratcheting prosthetic partial fingerthe Point Partialwhichhas an industry leading strength to weight ratiocan be operated unilaterallyone handedoffers anatomical rotation and flexion around the patient s proxi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Opioid drugs are powerful analgesicsbut their side effect profile strongly limits their useIndeedtheir addictive properties have led to an epidemic of abuse in the US that accounts forof the global utilization of prescription opioid analgesics in the USwith a market of over $billion per yearPrevious studies have shown that the endocannabinoid neurotransmitteranandamidecontrols noci ...

Project Summary Respiratory syncytial virusRSVinfectsmillion people and causes substantial mortality annually worldwideThere is no licensed RSV vaccineClinical trials of alum adjuvantedformalin inactivated whole RSVFI RSVvaccine caused vaccine enhanced respiratory disease during epidemic seasonwhich resulted in hospitalizations and two deathsIt is essential that an effective and safe RSV vaccine n ...

AbstractNoise is the number one occupational and environmental hazardand noiseinduced hearing lossNIHLis one common form of sensorineural hearing deficitonly second to age related hearing lossCurrently no drug preventing NIHL is approved by the United States Food and Drug AdministrationFDAOne major challenge for the introduction of such interventions is the need to identify appropriate human popul ...

Project SummaryDespite their many bene ts and common useprotein based drugs can elicit serious adverse side effectsMany of these side effects are believed to be caused by small protein aggregatesOne tool for measuring these particles in a high throughput fashion is Micro ow ImagingMFIMFI is commonly used in both academia and industry to characterize subvisible particlesthosem in sizein protein the ...

Abstract Chronic liver injury due to alcohol, metabolic dysfunction, viral hepatitis, or autoimmune disease results in liver inflammation and fibrosis. Liver fibrosis will progress to cirrhosis which is estimated to affect 1–2% of the world’s population. The major clinical consequences of cirrhosis are liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), both of which increase the risk of death. ...

AbstractSmart Sensor Bandage for Ulcer Monitoring Non healing pressure ulcers result in approximately $billion in additional treatments each year in the United Statesraising in hospital mortality by nearly threefold and lengthening hospital stay by more than double when ulcers are presentThis burden is particularly pronounced in assisted living facilities where occurrence is high and skilled nursi ...