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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cardiogenic shock can occur after open heart surgery or in association with myocardial infarctions, and carries a high mortality. Initiation of mechanical circulatory support can restore blood flow to vital organs and potentially save lives. In this proposal, we plan to develop a device designed to provide temporary mechanical circulatory support which is super ...

PROJECT SUMMARYTraumatic Brain InjuryTBIis one of the most significant Public Health trauma diseases of our timeDiagnoses of various TBI forms rely on patient self reportingestablished clinical rating scalesand multimodality imaging to an extentTBI elicits complexheterogeneous pathological eventsincluding mechanical injuryhemorrhageand progressive secondary processes such as central and peripheral ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to synthesize, based on genomic sequence information, a human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strain with demonstrated ability to establish persistent infection in sero-positive individuals. The resulting synthetic product will form the basis for the development of attenuated HCMV vaccines. Innovative synthetic biology methods will overcome ...

Project Summary Abstract Universal Adherence is an emerging medical device company dedicated to improving adherence to ocular medications through innovative technical solutionsOur proposed Devers Drop DeviceDwill accurately track when a patient removes an eye drop bottle capcommunicate usage data wirelessly to a database that researchers can accessand send alerts to patients when a medication is d ...

New pharmacological treatments for epilepsy will be discovered through the development of new screening platforms that are rapidreliableand can identify novel disease modifying therapiesor anti epileptogenic treatmentsXona MicrofluidicLLCXonais in a unique position to provide such screening tools and services for epilepsy researchXona focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms for neuron ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuron-cell culture is widely used for studies in basic research, drug discovery, and toxicity testing. Traditional random cultures allow limited access to subcellular compartments (axons, dendrites, synapses) due to extensive and haphazard growth of neurons. Our long-term goal is to provide robust, user-friendly, and cost effective culture platforms that can o ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this study is to develop a head tracking procedure for the automated assessment of hearing in infants using Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA). The head tracking procedure will be incorporated into the Intelligent Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (IVRA) system from Intelligent Hearing Systems Corp. The IVRA system currently provides automa ...

Project Summary AbstractThis project designsdevelopsand automates a novel system to process solid tissue into single cellssingle nucleiand high molecular weight DNA using disposable cartridges without user interventionThe system will support downstream single cell RNA or DNA sequencingsingle nuclei RNA or DNA sequencingand long read sequencers and optical mappingThe long term goal of the project i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetes has become a growing epidemic, yet treatment goals are seldom achieved, and patients endure detrimental complications. Insulin is the only dose-dependent antidiabetic medication in which most patients can accomplish balanced blood glucose levels when adequate dosages are prescribed. Nonetheless, only when insulin dosage is frequently titrated, is the f ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bacterial interference creates an ecological competition between commensal bacteria and pathogenic species. Like microbial competition via fermentation in a ripening fruit, bacterial interference via fermentation has been found in the deep-seated skin abscesses where is an anaerobic microenvironment, allowing bacteria to ferment carbohydrates to short-chain fa ...