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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Fast Track Small Business Technology Transfer study between Materia Inc in Pasadena CA and the University of Kansas intends to build upon successes of our current Phase II Fast Track STTR grant R GM which ends on March Preliminary results serve as a solid foundation for this Fast Track submission entitled andquot Development of Re ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Reverse phase protein arrayRPPAhas emerged as a promising antibody based highly quantitative proteomic technology suitable for profiling proteins in hundreds to thousands of patient samplesThe throughputsensitivityand cost effectiveness of RPPAtogether with its ability to deal with minuscule sample amountshave propelled applications of the technology in basicpreclinical and clinica ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Surface electromyogram sEMG controlled powered hand wrist prostheses are used by upper limb amputees to return partial upper limb function Conventional transradial prostheses can use surface EMG amplitudes from the residual forearm flexors and extensors to control hand closing and opening respectively Additional degrees of freedom DoFs e g wrist rota ...

Project SummaryDespite advances in the development of HIV drugs there remains a need for new therapiesToxicities associated with long term use of many of the approved HIV drugs coupled with the development of resistance drives the need for new and novel antiviralsMaturation inhibitorsMIsrepresent one such class of HIV therapiesHIV maturation inhibitors block virus replication by disrupting the con ...

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 ...

The Point PartialA Ratcheting Prosthetic Partial FingerUsing Advanced Rapid Manufacturing Technology Project SummaryAbstract The goal of the proposed project is to develop a purely mechanicalratcheting prosthetic partial fingerthe Point Partialwhichhas an industry leading strength to weight ratiocan be operated unilaterallyone handedoffers anatomical rotation and flexion around the patient s proxi ...

PROJECT SUMMARYTraumatic Brain InjuryTBIis one of the most significant Public Health trauma diseases of our timeDiagnoses of various TBI forms rely on patient self reportingestablished clinical rating scalesand multimodality imaging to an extentTBI elicits complexheterogeneous pathological eventsincluding mechanical injuryhemorrhageand progressive secondary processes such as central and peripheral ...

ABSTRACT Vaccine adjuvants help stimulate the body to generate an immune response when co injected with an antigenthe compound for which immunity is desiredAlthough the human body is capable of producing antibodies to most injected antigensadjuvants can help boost the body s ability to mount a successful and acquired immune response to the presented targetAdjuvants have been shown to enhance immun ...

Project SummaryNuclear magnetic resonanceNMRis amongst the most powerful analytical techniques ever inventedas recognized byNobel Prizes for methods development aloneNonethelessNMR is notoriously plagued by poor sensitivity and spatial resolutionState of the art NMR spectrometers typically feature detection thresholds ofnanograms forL sample volumesThis places NMR sensitivity many orders of magnit ...

There is a world wide twin epidemic of obesity and TypeDiabetesT Dwith an urgent need to find effective new drug treatments for inducing weight lossStable derivatives of the endogenous glucoregulatory hormoneglucagon like peptideGLPare in clinical use for the treatment of T D but are of equally great interest as an emerging treatment of obesity and of age related neurodegenerative conditions inclu ...