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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a compelling need to develop therapeutic approaches specifically designed to reduce neurological deficits after stroke. Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBCs) treatment dose-dependently improves functional outcome after stroke. UCBCs are associated with a lower risk of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and UCBCs are younger than adult bone marrow st ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While there is no doubt smoking is a direct causative factor underlying the development of lung cancer, not every smoker develops lung cancer. In fact, only 10-15% of smokers develop this disease, indicating that otherfactors make certain individuals more susceptible to cancer. A number of single nucleotide polymorphisms are known to correlate with the developm ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our goal is to develop an In Vitro Diagnostic Multivariate Assay (IVDMIA) to distinguish Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) from non-clonal reactive thrombocytosis (RT) etiologies. ET represents a distinct subtype of myeloproliferative disorders, thrombocytosis, characterized by increased proliferation of megakaryocytes and resultant elevated levels of circulating ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term objective of this project is to enable elderly persons to independently live within their own homes later into their lives with the assurance that their safety and well-being can be remotely monitored by health care professionals. A critical component of remote health care monitoring is physically tracking the location of the patient within a livi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corp, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, proposes to develop a hardware/software platform suitable for administering a variety of tests and survey instruments to underserved populations in settings that can range from living rooms to libraries, community centers to nursing homes, and from inner ci ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Strong evidence supports the notion that chemoprevention has the potential to be a major component of colorectal cancer control. The prevention of cancer depends heavily on the development of safe and effective agents. NSAIDs prevent colorectal cancer but have two major limitations that preclude their large-scale application to prevent colorectal cancer: a) sig ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term goal of this project is to develop and commercialize noninvasive equipment, called the sleep and respiratory track (SARTrak) system, for high throughput detection of sleep apnea in animals. The specific goal for the Phase I application is to design and evaluate a basic model of the SARTrak system with eight chambers (one chamber per animal), i.e. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to rapidly discover biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease (PD) by defining the spectrum of causal genetic loci for PD, not only for the purpose of accurate diagnosis and risk stratification but also in order to shed light on the underlying biology and pathways involved in PD pathogenesis for the purpose of future rational therapeutic de ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With over 300 therapeutic proteins currently in various stages of clinical trials, the road to a healthier future will require new methods for producing safer and less expensive recombinant proteins. In particular, next generation therapeutics derived from monoclonal antibodies (e.g. Fab, scAb, scFv, immunotoxins, etc) show great clinical promise in treating a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are developing an accommodative - disaccommodative intraocular lens implant (ADIOL) system based on a novel concept of capturing zonular tension and transmitting it unimpeded to a dynamically position intraocular lens system. This is made possible by a zonular capture haptic (ZCH) apparatus. This apparatus lends itself equally well to several possible combin ...