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Peripheral Nerve Injury (PNI) occurs in 3% of all trauma cases and 30% of combat injuries to the extremities, resulting in a loss of five million working days each year and costs of $150 billion annually in the U.S. The standard of care in the clinic is a nerve autograft from the patients’ leg. The NeuroSpan Bridge is a unique, biomimetic, multi-channel scaffold that maintains linearity througho ...

Project Summary Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) commonly occurs in critically ill patients in the ICU. Patients with severe AKI often require continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) because it enables hemodynamic stability and better volume control. Anticoagulation therapy is frequently used to keep the CRRT circuit (especially the blood filter) from clotting as many critically ill patients are prot ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Diabetes Mellitus (DM), a metabolic disorder characterized by defective insulin signaling and elevated blood glucose, has become a public health epidemic with half of the US population diagnosed with either DM or pre- diabetes. One of the most common and devastating sequelae of uncontrolled DM is the development of chronic non-healing wounds. An estimated 25% of diabetic p ...

Development of a SYF2 antisense oligonucleotide treatment for ALS and FTD Project Summary Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are complex diseases that result from many diverse genetic etiologies. Although therapeutic strategies that target specific causal mutations (e.g. C9ORF72 antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs)) may prove effective against individual forms of AL ...

Abstract. Natural products offer excellent sources of health-promoting medicines yet challenges in efficiently and economically sourcing these value-add bio-compounds have prevented their greater availability and promotion to public health. We address this problem by developing a novel image-based screening technology that offers highly sensitive, phenotypic bioassays of metabolite concentrations ...

Abstract. Virtually all optical microscopes for biological imaging are based on refractive objective lenses. The performance of these lenses approaches the theoretical limit, however, their use is limited to the visible to near-infrared spectral range. Even within this range, their performance is only guaranteed over a relatively narrow range, and broadband use is invariably affected by chromatic ...

Project Summary Minimally invasive cardio-thoracic approaches, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), have recently overtaken traditional surgical methods due to significant reductions in procedural mortality, morbidity, and improved time to recovery. Transfemoral access of the heart via the femoral artery is the most common approach for delivery of large bore devices such as heart ...

Project Summary / Abstract Periodontal disease (PD) is globally the most common chronic inflammatory disease in humans, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) affect 47% of U.S. adults 30 years of age or older and rt60% of those over 65 years.1 Given that the course of PD is marked by a discontinuous pattern of disease activity and inactivity showing exacerbation a ...

ABSTRACT Ischemic retinopathies, such as diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion, are the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Common features are leaky vessels, swelling, capillary drop out, aberrant vessel growth and retinal detachment. Current treatments include laser ablation, anti-VEGFs and steroids. All are sub-optimal and only serve to slow disease progression and vision ...

Mucormycosis, caused by Mucorales fungi, is a life-threatening infection that occurs in patients immunocom- promised by diabetic ketoacidosis, neutropenia, corticosteroid use, and/or increased serum iron. Because of the rising prevalence of mucormycosis risk factors, the incidence of the infection has risen. The increased number of mucormycosis cases is highlighted by the recent epidemic seen amon ...