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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since its first use in the retina in 1961, fluorescein angiography (FA) has been the gold standard for objective characterization of retinovascular disease (e.g. diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusions, and choroidal neovascularization associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)). Despite its widespread use, FA is costly, invasive, and time con ...

Emerald Education Systems has developed an online continuing professional education learning system that targets low vision rehabilitation service providers. This CE learning system has three components: 1) a set of coordinated in depth online courses that provide a broad and deep foundation of knowledge on low vision rehabilitation that is delivered using a didactic approach at a learner-controll ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Therapy to Improve Wound Healing with DNA Expression Vector for HIF 11 and Electroporation Impaired wound healing is a tremendous problem for individuals with diabetes. Patients with diabetes are at risk for developing foot ulcers. These non-healing ulcerations on the foot are disabling, and their progression leads to amputation of the lower extremity. Diabetes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Evidence and theory indicate that laboratory measures of impairment and function do not predict how older adults actually function in daily life. Thomas Glass (1998), for example, reports marked differences between functional activities that community residents can do and do do in survey data from the MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. Therefore, subst ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is an exceptionally common vaginal condition in which robust lactobacillus microflora in the vagina is replaced by a dense polymicrobial overgrowth. At any given time, about 1 in 3 women in the U.S. have BV; half are asymptomatic, and most women with symptomatic BV have only mild symptoms (increased discharge with a fishy smell). Despit ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The product that will result from this STTR is ABH (2(S)-amino-6-boronohexanoic acid), a potent small molecule inhibitor of the enzyme arginase, for treating vascular complications of diabetes. There are 20.8 million Americans with diabetes. More than 65% of these people will die from heart disease or stroke. Men with diabetes are twice as likely, and women wi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute lung injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are characterized by a rapid and severe respiratory failure, arising after clinical events including major surgery, trauma, multiple transfusions and sepsis. ALI/ARDS have an associated mortality of 40-80% and current pharmacological modalities have been unsuccessful in decreasing mortality. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase 1 STTR application seeks support for research to enhance the commercial viability of a tool to assess the cultural competence of health care organizations. The tool was developed by Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, who is director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Cultural-comp ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR program will test the utility of a low-cost device for noninvasive liver iron measurements, by using the device to determine the prevalence of iron overload in African Americans. African American iron overload is both an under-studied health issue in a medically underserved population, and an example of the wider problem of mild to moderate iron overl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is an immediate and urgent clinical need to enhance the monitoring of the delivery and accuracy of targeted drug delivery, the onset and spread of cancers, and the longitudinal monitoring of cancer treatments. Nanotechnology holds the promise to address this problem. A smart particle capable of selective targeting would augment the physician's tools nee ...