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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACTHealthcare systems around the world, including within the United States, have long-established shortages of trained caregivers (WHO, 2016; Jones, Liu, Murfield, andamp; Moyle, 2020). The American Health Care Association (2019) states that “the health care system has experienced a shortage of trained caregivers for critical roles for some time.” This scarcity directly im ...

Pancreatic cancer is soon to be the second leading cause of cancer-related death with an overall median survival of 8 - 11 months. For 70% of patients, systemic chemotherapy is the only option and this mainly relieves the symptoms and/or slightly extends survival, rather than cures the patients. One of the hallmarks of PDAC is extensive fibrosis that comprises up to 80% of the tumor. Cancer-associ ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Neonatal encephalopathy can arise from fetal hypoxia-ischemia during labor, chronic uteroplacental inflammation, and large cerebral artery embolization primarily arising from dislodgement of a placental thrombus. Because of overlapping clinical presentation, differential diagnosis is often delayed until seizures develop and MRI can be safely performed, a time at which most ...

Dental CBCT is a 3D imaging modality widely adopted to help dentists detect and diagnose jaw lesions. Due to minimum information loss (compared to conventional 2D radiography) and low radiation exposure (compared to conventional CT), it has become the “go-to” radiographic technique in various dental fields. Gaps: Accompanying the clear benefits of dental CBCT is an overwhelming amount of 3D da ...

Abstract Our mission is to develop an innovative anti-cancer drug delivering bone cement for bone metastasis patients, which can be injected into metastasis-caused bone degeneration sites in a minimally invasive manner, to regress cancer, regenerate bone, and stop the pain. Metastasis is the main cause of cancer death. Bone is one of the most frequent cancer metastatic sites. About 350,000 America ...

ABSTRACT – Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) reduces the incidence of coronary aneurysms and risk of long-term cardiovascular complications. IVIG is recommended to be given within 10 days of illness; however only 4.7% receive the correct diagnosis at the first medical visit. Timely and accurately ...

Project Summary/AbstractThe opioid epidemic is a growing public health crisis with dramatic increase in overdose deaths caused by potent opioids like fentanyl. Currently, the standard treatment for opioid-induced respiratory depression is naloxone, a µ-opioid receptor antagonist. However, naloxone is less effective against potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl and induces withdrawal in chronic o ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has become the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the world, with a 72% mortality rate in the US. The rise in incidence of HCC is due to a steady increase in the major risk factors of liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatitis B/C, with limited efficacy conferred by existing treatments at advanced stages of the disease. Systemic therapy with tyrosine kinas ...

Abstract. Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive and deadly brain cancer with a one year median survival due to the lack of effective targeted treatments. Our goal is to develop a small molecule inhibitor targeting RPN13 protein in the 19S proteasome complex as a new drug for GBM. RPN13 is a proteasome ubiquitin receptor that recognizes ubiquitin-conjugated proteins that are thus tagged for degradati ...

AbstractHistone modifications carry rich information of cellular memory and gene regulatory mechanisms. Single cell analysis of histone modification in conjunction with transcriptome could recover this critical layer of cell identity and help to dissect the cellular and molecular composition of complex tissues such as the brain. We recently developed an ultra-high throughput single cell multi-omic ...