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After a breast conserving therapy histology is often performed to check whether the excised tumor specimen is surrounded by a sufficient amount of normal tissue If a positive margin is identified then a second operation will be performed Currently the re operation rate is which raises a need for intraoperative detection of residual cancers The current intraoperative tools for margin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is poised to increase exponentially with the growing aging population worldwide In the United States total annual costs of AD care are projected to increase from $ billion in to over $ trillion in Paucity of disease modifying therapies capable of slowing the disease progression is an acute unmet ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Fibroproliferative illnesses leading to organ fibrosis and failure are responsible for approximately of deaths in developed countries whether idiopathic triggered by environmental factors infections or genetics organ fibrosis results in significant morbidity and mortality Organ fibrosis is responsible for health care costs exceeding $ billion year ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The abuse of illicit drugs such as cocaine marijuana and heroin remains a critical public health concern throughout the country and is associated with staggering economic and social consequences Cocaine remains the most frequently recorded illicit drug in emergency hospital visits and the leading cause of drug related deaths in the United States Since as hi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adeno associated virus AAV is a non pathogenic human parvovirus and recombinant AAV vectors have gained significant attention owing to their safety and in some cases clinical efficacy in a number of Phase I II clinical trials However relatively large vector doses are needed to achieve clinical efficacy and such high doses can lead to host immune respon ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The pursuit of novel therapies informed by the astounding advances in biomedical science of the past half century has been fruitful for many disorders However inherited muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy remain stubbornly resistant to sophisticated molecular approaches to therapy A few therapies are finally edging towards approval but it has become ...

Project Summary Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing public health concern due to the rise of pathogenic bacterial strains with mutations that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs to treat infections Beta lactamases produced by some bacteria provide resistance by degrading beta lactams one of most widely used class of antibiotics Originally restricted to penicillins mutant bet ...

Project Summary This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project proposes the development and optimization of a commercially viable novel polymer based radiation dosimeter for wide spread deployment The radiation dosimeter proposed herein is a disruptive technology with a significant market Although many commercial radiation dosimeters measure individual radiation load dose quantificatio ...

Project Summary Linking infectious agent diagnostics to clinical decision making at the point of care requires a fast highly sensitive and simple to use method that takes into account the infrastructure and workflow in clinical settings of both developing and developed regions In addition being able to distinguish among multiple potential infectious pathogens in a single test is of great impor ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT This proposal describes Phase II of the development of a rapid immunoassay test kit for the determination oflactam antibiotic resistanceto be used as a point of care diagnostic test for urinary tract infectionsTodayantibiotics for UTI are prescribed empiricallywith no diagnostics available to clinicians to avoid treating resistant infections with the very drug to which the ...