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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Multiple sclerosis MS is a chronic demyelinating inflammatory disease that is the most common neurological disease of young adults affecting over patients in the US and over million patients worldwide MS is a disease of high unmet medical need currently treatable with one of twelve FDA approved drugs all of which result in either significant i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Because of the long history of the use of formalin as the standard fixative for tissue processing in histopathology, there are a large number of archival formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue banks worldwid e. These FFPE tissue collections, with attached clinical and outcome information, present invaluable resources for conducting retrospective pro ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, with more than 300 million people affected. Most adults with depressive symptoms make at least one annual visit to a primary care physician (PCP). As such, primary care offers a ripe opportunity to identify and treat adults with depressive symptomatology. Yet, depression has historically been undertreated in primary ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Advances in DNA sequencing technology have now made it practical and affordable to generate datasets containing millions of genetic attributes that can be tested for association with disease susceptibility The computational complexity of searching for genetic interactions over such high dimensional datasets imposes great challenges for genome wide associatio ...

ABSTRACT Suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in the US and suicide rates have increased steadily over the last twenty years. Currently, the most effective treatment options are cognitive behavioral therapies for suicide prevention (CBT-SP), which have been shown to reduce both suicide attempt (SA) risk and suicide ideation (SI). However, access to these treatments is limited because ther ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim is to develop a high resolution, high contrast detector for digital x-ray imaging systems. The target detector would have a Detective Quantum Efficiency much greater than 80%, a limiting resolution of at least 10 lp/mm, ultra-low noise, linear response and a dynamic range of more than 14 bits. The proposal is to build such a detector by using CdZnTe c ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Our overall goal is to develop a novel computing solution for automatic and accurate registration spatial alignment of dimensional D medical images of any modality and any anatomy rigid or deformable in minute or less Such capability currently does not exist Existing image registration solutions have limited accuracy and or limited applicability p ...

Today, promising new protein targets for small molecule drugs are being discovered rapid. With increasing frequency, the 3D structures of these proteins are available or can be modeled from known protein structures. Demand is therefor growing for software to support structure-based discovery of protein ligands as candidate drugs. However, existing software leaves enormous room for improvement in a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Phase II STTR program is to develop a high-throughput, ultra-sensitive accelerator mass spectrometer for the detection and quantification of tritium in labeled biological molecules. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a highly selective means for detecting tritium that can achieve a measurement sensitivity over 1000 times greater than decay ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our goal is to produce point-of-care diagnostic tests for amebiasis. Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite and the causative agent of amebiasis in humans. Intestinal amebiasis causes debilitating diarrhea and dysentery, while extraintestinal amebiasis occurs when the parasite migrates from the intestinal tract to organs throughout the body, most commonl ...