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Abstract For decadesthe treatment of cancer has relied on surgical resectionchemotherapy and or radiotherapyRecentlya number of immune based therapies have provided promising new approaches for cancer treatmentThe two most potent immunotherapies are monoclonal antibodymABbased bi specific proteinseg Bispecific T cell engagersBiTEand engineered Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cellsCAR TBoth act by indu ...

PreeclampsiaPEis a pregnancy specific disorder characterized by hypertension and commonly by the appearance of urinary proteinThis disorder occurs inof pregnancies worldwide and is the second leading cause of maternal fetal morbidity and mortality worldwideIn low resource settingsPE accounts for up toof maternal deathsThe etiology of this disease is poorly understoodThis confounds therapeutic inte ...

Signature Research, Inc. (SGR) and Michigan Technological University (MTU) propose a Phase I STTR effort to develop a learning algorithm which exploits the spatio-spectral characteristics inherent within IR imagery and motion imagery.Our archive of modelled and labeled data sets will allow our team to thoroughly capture the variable elements that will drive machine learning performance.The overall ...

The number of people with diabetes worldwide is predicted to increase frommillion intomillion inThe health care costs of treating the disease account forof the global health expenditure and continue to be a huge economic burdenIDF World AtlasTypediabetes mellitusT DMconstitutesof the disease burdenIt is an autoimmune diseasethought to be triggered by genetic or environmental factors in early child ...

Project Summary Abstract This project will develop a Socially Assistive RobotSARto provide cognitive trainingin the form of learning to play the pianoto improve cognitive functioning and reduce feelings of loneliness in socially isolated older adultsThe SAR will administer cognitive training via guided practice on a set of standard piano lesson tasks designed to reflect particular cognitive functi ...

Neurodevelopmental diseasesNDDsAutism Spectrum DisorderASDIntellectual DisabilitiesBipolar disordersand Schizophreniaetcare prevalent and due to errors in neurodifferentiation and neurocircuitryWhile NDDsin many casesare due to inherited mutationsevidence is mounting that prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants also cause NDDs via disruption of epigeneticse gmodifications of histoneshistone t ...

On this effort Toyon Research Corp. and The Pennsylvania State University are developing deep learning-based algorithms for object recognition and new class discovery in look-down infrared (IR) imagery. Our approach involves the development of a hybrid classifier that exploits both transfer learning and semi-supervised paradigms in order to maintain good generalization accuracy, especially when li ...

Project SummaryAbstractThis proposal presents Phase II of Mercury Biomedandapos s plan for commercializing the new and innovative WarmSmart technology to more effectively keep surgical patients normothermicWarmSmart embodies several breakthrough concepts in bioheat transfer to manage core temperatureWe are building a costcompetitive patient warming technology that will be superior to existing tech ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal aims to develop a novel caveolae targeting antibody for rapid clinical translationIts long term objective is to develop the caveolae pumping systeman active transendothelial transport pathwayto provide an effective solution to the delivery and toxicity problem of systemically administered chemotoxinsWork will be based on the current proprietary mouse monoclonal antibo ...

New pharmacological treatments for epilepsy will be discovered through the development of new screening platforms that are rapidreliableand can identify novel disease modifying therapiesor anti epileptogenic treatmentsXona MicrofluidicLLCXonais in a unique position to provide such screening tools and services for epilepsy researchXona focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms for neuron ...