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Principal Investigators for Small BusinessDiscoveryBioMedIncDBMand Monell Chemical Senses Center Project Summary Abstract Bitter taste in foods and medicines presents a barrier to overcoming global public health challengesfood insecuritypoor nutritional healthand poor compliance with medication useparticularly among children and the elderlySugar and saltthe mainstays to address these challengesfur ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and the third leading cause of death in the United States. Approximately 15 million people in the world, and more than 700,000 people in the United States, experience a stroke each year. Following a hemispheric stroke, motor control of extremities on one side of the body is usually affected. Many patients suffer a ...

ABSTRACT The overall goal of this STTR project is to commercialize a novel optical eye scanner device capable of measuring the biomechanical properties of tissues via Brillouin light scatteringThe Brillouin technology invented in the co PI s lab has shown broad potential for improving the diagnosis and treatment of vision disordersClinical data obtained with current laboratory systems revealed cor ...

Summary We will create a preclinical quantitative Cancer Imaging and Therapy Platform CITP which will allow one to study cancer biology and optimize pipelines of technologies imaging agents imaging methods targeted nano therapeutics tumor models etc especially for metastatic and invasive cancers Today primary tumor mass es are clinically controlled with surgical drug and radiatio ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe goal of this Fast Track STTR project is to develop a novel CardioPortTM surgical device that will enable minimally invasive beating heart repair without use of cardiopulmonary bypassCPBThere is a critical unmet need for new instruments to improve the surgical repair of heart defects in childrenCurrent best surgical practices involve either open heart surgery wit ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this proposal is to evaluate a novel method to mobilize and procure a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) allograft which we hypothesize will lead to rapid hematopoietic engraftment but cause less graft versus host disease (GVHD) compared to G-CSF mobilized peripheral blood stem cells (G-PBSC) following allogeneic HSC transplantation (HSCT). W ...

Project SummaryCell free protein synthesisCFPSis a method of producing proteins outside living cells and has distinct advantages over traditional cell culture based protein productionIt is often difficult to maintain complex environmental condition for cell viability and the subsequent need to develop a downstream process for purification of product in traditional cell based systemsCFPSon the othe ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Cell Microsystems Inc is an early stage biotechnology company whose mission is the commercialization of a novel cost effective platform enabling the identification and efficient isolation of viable cells based on morphologic and fluorescence signatures as well as characteristics that change over time The CellRaft technology is based on a unique cell array recently developed ...

Most standard-of-care tools and techniques for evaluating neck disorders are subjective, unreliable, and do not provide actionable information for providers, payers, and organizations to deliver efficient and effective care. This lack of objective neck he

PROJECT SUMMARYIn this proposalEpiCypher is partnering with DrJian Jina leader in medicinal chemistry and epigenetic drug discoveryto develop the first epigenetics focused chemical library for histone methylationSmall molecule inhibitors that target histone methylation are an emerging class of therapeutics for cancer treatmentThis hot bed of drug development is fueled by the identification of nume ...