Single Source-Detector Separation Approach to Calculate Tissue Oxygen Saturation

Summary: 
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks partners and/or licensees to further develop and commercialize the miniaturized tissue oximeter for implementing the single source-detector separation algorithm in existing devices/systems to collect tissue oxygen saturation.

Description of Technology: 

La Protein as a Novel Regulator of Osteoclastogenesis

Millions of patients in the United States are afflicted by a host of bone diseases caused by osteoclast (specialized calls arising from the macrophage/monocyte lineage) dysfunction. Diseases include Paget’s disease, osteoporosis, fibrous dysplasia and osteolytic bone metastasis. The current standard of care for these diseases uses broad-spectrum therapies that either coat the skeletal system or inhibit osteoclast development in an effort to modulate osteoclastogenesis.

Therapeutics Against Pathogenic Coronaviruses

The COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide public health crisis with over 440 million confirmed cases and 6.0 million deaths as of March 2022. COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). While there are several vaccines available for COVID-19, there are few therapeutics available that specifically target SARS-CoV-2. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is less understood than SARS-CoV-2. MERS-CoV patients have a 65% long-term survival rate, according the World Health Organization (WHO).

Levonorgestrel Butanoate Formulation and Methods Relating Thereto

This invention is a potential subcutaneous or intramuscular progestin-only, injectable contraceptive for women. Forty-five percent (45%) of pregnancies in the United States are unintended. In this group, one-third of reproductive age women are obese – increasing the risk of diabetes, hypertension and venous thromboembolism (VTE). All these are conditions for which most hormonal methods are contraindicated. Thus, additional safe and effective injectable contraceptive options are needed.