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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Substance use disorders SUDs continue to be one of the most serious public health problems in the US Studies have consistently documented a substantially higher prevalence of SUDs among individuals under criminal justice supervision At year end approximately million adults were under criminal justice supervision in the US of which million i ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood but many children have poorly controlled symptoms causing morbidities hospitalizations and costs The first step toward good asthma control is accurate assessment of symptoms Recall of the frequency and severity of symptoms is the cornerstone of asthma assessment Unfortunately recall by parents or ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The overall goal of this project is to improve quality of care of patients with diabetes by identifying patients who may have particular difficulty reaching treatment targets and who could therefore potentially benefit from additional resources Investigators propose to achieve this goal by developing a technology to accurately identify patients at high risk f ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This phase project has as its overall objectives to design engineer optimize and implement a novel genetically encoded fluorescent drug sensor FDS based on F rster Resonance Energy Transfer FRET by exploiting conformational rearrangements induced by drug interactions with human serum albumin SA SA is uniquely suited for a general drug sensor beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heroin and related opioids are highly addictive drugs known for their analgesic properties Since the number of heroin users in the United States has skyrocketed reaching epidemic levels Abuse of prescription opioid pain relievers oxycodone Oxycotin and hydrocodone Vicodin which are known gateway drugs to heroin has also increased dramatically Beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Atopic dermatitis AD or severe eczema is a very common life long skin disease with of adults in the US requiring systemic therapy Clinical manifestations of AD include multiple inflamed lesions erosions accompanied by lichenification thick leathery skin fibrotic papules and severely dry skin with increased susceptibility to infection A major uncont ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The increasing prevalence of drug resistant bacterial infections highlights the critical medical need for new agents that are not susceptible to existing resistance mechanisms Few new agents are in development for Gram negative bacteria which take up small molecules sparingly and efflux most compounds that reach the periplasm A particularly problematic group ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alzheimerandapos s disease AD the most common type of dementia is a devastating disease with no available treatment or prevention The current lifetime risk for a year old individual is estimated to be around Given current projections over million individuals will be diagnosed with Alzheimerandapos s disease by As the development of the ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are approximately million cases of dengue fever each year with billion people at risk mostly in low income countries There are four serotypes of dengue fever virus DENV and in its uncomplicated form the disease is worthy of its indigenous name andquot break bone feverandquot An individual may suffer sequential infections with multiple DE ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Safe and reliable access to major blood vessels and internal organs will be beneficial to patients with cardiovascular disease and cancer An interventional catheter with forward viewing ultrasound imaging capability will be developed to enable image guided access to blood vessels and internal organs Phase experiments demonstrate feasibility of building a hi ...