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Summary Recentlywe found extensive remodeling of the microvasculature of the retinaoccurring in some diabetic patients much earlier than expectedThis provides the potential for novel biomarkers to improve classification of patients for management and cost effective testing of therapiesHoweverthe equipment is too expensive for most clinics and small practicesThese early retinal microvascular change ...

PROJECTSUMMARY Scaling extracellular electrophysiology to higher channel counts is hindered by the burden of data handling storageand especially preprocessinge gspike sortingThe burden of spike sorting can in principle be reduced through a combination of high density multielectrode arrayprobetechnology and algorithm optimization to yield a spike sorting method that is both highly accurate and full ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The title of this project is andquot Treating Collagen induced Arthritis with Fc Receptor Activating Nanoparticlesandquot We and others have identified and characterized a population of macrophages with potent immunorergulatory activity The goal of the present proposal is to induce the production of regulatory macrophages R M in mice and determine wheth ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The inability to treat many Gram negative bacterial infections effectively with existing antibiotics is a major medical crisis Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prime example of clinical isolates from critically ill patients are resistant to three or more drugs The overall goal of this project is to address the critical medical need by a novel approach of iden ...

Project Summary Linking infectious agent diagnostics to clinical decision making at the point of care requires a fast highly sensitive and simple to use method that takes into account the infrastructure and workflow in clinical settings of both developing and developed regions In addition being able to distinguish among multiple potential infectious pathogens in a single test is of great impor ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Aspergillosis is a severe fungal infection that most frequently involves the lungs in people who have immune deficiency caused by cancer chemotherapy and or transplantation Although good drugs are available establishing a diagnosis is difficult and late treatment has limited our progress in decreasing morbidity and mortality We observed that Aspergillus pol ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gene transfer for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is bedeviled by inability to obtain safely and easily sufficient cardiac transgene expression Current methods of gene transfer for heart disease include intramuscular injection into heart muscle or intracoronary delivery approaches that are cumbersome to apply Consequently we have considered the u ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Science based strategies for quantifying and mitigating the impact of anthropogenic emissions on public health are essential for the sustainability of cities Similar strategies can also be used to develop and assess the effectiveness of a national defense system against terrorist attacks with airborne biological agents and protect against the spread of airborn ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Platelet transfusions are the most effective treatments for patients with thrombocytopenia The growing demand for platelet transfusions is often limited by shortage in the platelets PTL supply due to dependency on volunteer donors short shelf life risk of infections and alloimmunization It is therefore critical to create an efficient donor independent ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase I collaboration between KWJ Engineering KWJ and North Carolina State University NCSU will be development of a unique autonomously powered wearable environmental gas sensor for personal exposure monitoring PEM The approach will be to integrate KWJ ultralow power high performance printed amperometric gas sensor for key atmosp ...