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PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT As people age they steadily lose bone mass and their bones become fragile and increasingly prone to hip and other fractures and this can prove fatal The American College of Radiology therefore recommends that assessment of bone mineral density BMD be performed in post menopausal women and all people over the age of every two years If indicated preventive measure ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase II STTR grant application is to continue the R Randamp D efforts initiated in Phase I The long term objective for Arrhythmotech is to develop and market an instrument for the simultaneous recording of sympathetic nerve activity SNA and electrocardiogram ECG using electrodes on the skin This method neuECG was discovered in Dr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Altered cellular energetics contributes to human disease in general physiological aging and chronic diseases in particular including cancer neurodegeneration ischemic heart disease and type diabetes Pathological changes affecting the individual may arise only in specific cells of a tissue and potentially in a heterogeneous manner To advance basic resea ...

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 ...

NanoSD, Inc. with its partners will develop a transparent, nanostructured thermally insulating film that can be applied to existing single-pane windows to reduce heat loss. To produce the nanostructured film, the team will create hollow ceramic or polymer nanobubbles and consolidate them into a dense lattice structure using heat and compression. Because it is mostly air, the resulting nanobubble s ...

For more than years sub Saharan Africa has suffered with high rates of endemic meningococcal disease and periodic epidemic epidemics involving over cases In a low cost serogroup A polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine MenAfriVac was introduced in the region The vaccine confers protection against serogroup A MenA disease as well as asymptomatic nasopharyngeal MenA carria ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is a major public health problem and a leading cause of mortality claiming more than half million lives every year in the US While major progresses have been made in developing targeted anticancer therapeutics many cancers such as lung cancers have no effective treatments Unfortunately many ideal oncogenic targets including transcription factors for ...

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 ...