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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 ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Wide varieties of peripheral neuropathies accompanied by severe chronic pain are among the most common and debilitating human afflictions. Existing treatments have little long term benefits and often have severe side effects. Increasing evidence indicates that pathologies in the structure and chemistry of the skin and its innervation are likely contributors to ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapy The product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computing The project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Complete achromatopsia is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital disorder of retinal cone photoreceptors Patients with complete achromatopsia experience extreme light sensitivity and daytime blindness and best visual acuity under non bright light conditions is usually or worse and generally stable over time In addition to poor acuity hypersensit ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The tumor suppressor Adenomatous Polyposis Coli APC directs degradation of catenin a central signaling protein in the WNT pathway Germline loss of function mutations in APC activate WNT signaling and underlie the inherited colorectal cancer predisposition syndrome Familial Adenomatous Polyposis FAP an orphan disease while somatic mutations lead to spo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a novel device for respiratory therapy that uses interactive gaming and music to encourage patient compliance In order to maintain pulmonary health many post operative surgery patients as well as people with quadriplegia and other spinal cord injuries high level motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosi ...

Realistic surgical simulation requires a combination of representative tissue geometry, accurate tissue material properties and lifelike tool-tissue interaction forces. Recent advances in computational power and imaging modalities have provided the capability to represent the anatomical details required for surgical training; however, the mathematical models which govern the underlying tissue pro ...

Surgical simulations aiming to support surgeon practices and medical education have attracted enormous research effort over the last two decades. However, the physical reality, especially on simulating aggregated tissue interaction, is still unsatisfactory. In this proposed work, an open source surgery simulation framework, SoFMIS, will be utilized and enhanced with tissue interaction models to a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Capture Pharmaceuticals Inc is developing a drug called C E initially intended for treatment of individuals who have been contaminated by radioactive actinide elements following a nuclear terrorism event Because of the similarities between actinides and lanthanides it is expected that C E will also be effective in removing gadolinium Gd a lanthanide in ...

BioMojo LLC and the Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will develop a preliminary bio mathematical model framework to represent how human tissues interact and behave at their boundaries. Tissue interaction properties (e.g. tensile, shear, friction, and so forth) of connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous tissue including su ...