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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Terra Nova Learning Systems enthusiastically anticipates developing, producing, testing, and marketing the Improving the Lives of Children with FASD: An e-Learning Resource for Caregivers program outlined in this proposal. This practical caregiver resource will address NIAAA's priority of improving the skills of caregivers and individuals living with FASD and ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Drug abuse is a serious problem in the U.S. that destroys families, lowers workplace productivity, contributes to spiraling healthcare costs, and causes premature deaths. As noted in a 2003 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, far too few psychiatry residents are choosing clinical research careers. The same is true of graduate level trainees in psychology, nursi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Drug abuse is a significant, growing, and far-reaching problem, with up to 22.6 million Americans age 12 and older having experienced substance abuse or dependency problems in 2006, as reported in SAMHSA's 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health report. Without question, effective treatment is essential to curbing this crisis and improving public health ac ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): KDOQI clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) improve dialysis patient care but their complexity makes them difficult to integrate into the dialysis clinic. Previous technological solutions Electronic medical records, Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS) have failed because they were not integrated into the clinic workflow. Visonex LLC proposes to build and t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goals of this Phase I proposal are (1) to develop a prototype of a novel vision-assisting device that displays' images from the area of vision loss (derived from a user's scotoma region) on the tongue and (2) to establish the proof of principle that individuals with macular degeneration can use the device to identify letters displayed in their area ...

Location 1860 WENDY WAY RENO, NV 89509 United States N44CO200900040 $749 996.00 2 009 PHASE II TOPIC 233: AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF CANCER-RELATED DATA Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health SBIR PHS2009-1 QUANTUMMARK LLC Phas ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Primorigen Biosciences will use SBIR funds to develop a frameless, multiplexed, microarray screening system for rapid identification and characterization of antibody matched pairs with appropriate affinity and specificity for human proteins central to pluripotency and multipotency. This system produces improved assay content and dramatically reduces the time an ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Heart disease frequently leads to cardiac fibrosis. In almost all cases of chronic heart disease, the myocardium exhibits fibrosis developed by activated cardiac fibroblasts. These fibroblasts are quiescent in the healthy heart. Interstitial fibrosis due to extracellular matrix deposition by fibroblasts increases the stiffness of the tissue and impairs cardiac ...