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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An estimated 36 million US citizens have impaired hearing, but only one in five has had a hearing test. As noted by a recent NIDCD Working Group, In the US there are no readily accessible low-cost hearing screening programs. The authors of this proposal, in collaboration with scientists from Indiana University and VU University Medical Center of Amsterdam, ha ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Techshot, Inc. has successfully completed SBIR Phase I and Phase II research demonstrating that magnetically labeled porcine islets of Langerhans can be isolated from contaminating exocrine tissue by flow sorting usinga quadrupole magnetic separator ( Quadrasep ) designed for that purpose. Magnetically sorted islets are superior in morphology and physiology to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this Phase II SBIR application is to test NTX-1 fiber in patients with constipation-predominant IBS (IBS-C) and determine if it can reduce symptoms, beneficially modify gut microbiota composition, and improve gut milieu in these patients. Our hypothesis for the Phase II study is that NTX-1 fiber is better tolerated (i.e. has less side effects) ...

Project Summary / Abstract - EY020017 Phase IIB Competitive Renewal The overall goal of the proposed SBIR program is to implement and evaluate a low cost, portable retinal camera, the DLP-Cam, in a primary care system for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening. Untreated DR has reached epidemic levels in underserved populations worldwide. To fully address this issue, DR screening must lead seamlessl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For dental and other applications there is a great need for self-filling tissue expanders with the capacity to be reshaped to fit the void by the surgeon at time of implantation. Akina recently completed an initial Phase II study using its hydrogel-based reshapable swelling tissue expanders (Restiex(R)). The study validated the function of Restiex to generate a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While the number of diagnostic technologies available for adult applications continues to grow, there remains a paucity of technologies suitable for fetal evaluation. In particular, noninvasive assessment of fetal cardiac electrophysiology has not been routinely possible despite many decades of fetal ECG research. Recently, a number of groups have demonstrated ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most costly and second most common hospital-acquired infection (HAI), accounting for over 86% of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP). Some 300,000 HAP patients are treated annually in the U.S., at an estimated annual hospital cost of more than 1.5 billion. The current paradigm for preventing VAP has been to implement ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Researchers and contractors are under increasing pressure to produce rapid turnaround times for data releases and publications. Inadequate data management is a common threat to good research and impedes the quick release of high value data. Despite its importance, many organizations do not have standardized data management practices that allow them to prepare h ...

The long-term goal of this proposal is to discover and develop small molecule drugs against Head and Neck Cancers (HNC). The focus is on drug candidates that target processes critical for repopulation after radiation treatment. The current proposal is to perform preliminary pharmacokinetics and toxicity studies and test the efficacy of a proprietary drug candidate on preclinical models of human HN ...

Cell-surface oligosaccharides appended to proteins and lipids are key binding epitopes in many critical biological processes, including bacterial infection, cell development and the immune response. Understanding these processes at the molecular level requires access to a wide range of oligosaccharides of known structure to support investigations of enzyme substrate binding and specificity, to ...