Search Technologies
Displaying 151 - 160 of 884 results
Researchers at the University of Maryland have created hundreds of innovations that are available for licensing. Our Discovery Portfolio contains an exciting mix of vaccines, drug targets, therapeutics, devices and cutting edge techniques that promise to make a quantifiable impact on human health and the environment.
Search by keyword:
-
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Patients Diagnosed with Gaucher Disease
Published Wednesday, October 4, 2017Gaucher disease (GD) is a genetic disorder in which glucocerebroside accumulates certain organs because the body fails to produce sufficient quantities of lysosomal glucocerebrosidase (GCase). The mechanisms by which GCase deficiency causes GD is not understood due to the limited availability of relevant tissues from...
Investigator(s): Ricardo Feldman
Keyword(s): Tangible Research Project, Gaucher
Docket: RF-2012-043
-
Prednisone Taper Calculator: Steroid Taper Calculator for the Treatment of Immune Adverse Reactions to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Published Wednesday, October 4, 2017Immune check-point inhibitors (ICPI) in combination with immunotherapies have been successful in treating solid tumors. However, 7-60% of patients using the ICPI combination therapy experience side effects, which can manifest as autoimmune attacks and can potentially become life threatening. The side effects can be treated successfully...
Investigator(s): Petr Hausner
Keyword(s): Healthcare IT, software
Docket: PH-2017-020
-
Image Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cell MicroTentacles
Published Wednesday, October 4, 2017The study of circulating tumor cells (CTC) is of considerable interest because of their prognostic value and for therapeutic development. One interesting morphological aspect of CTCs is the presence of microtentacles. Microtenticles are protusions found on the CTCs that are thought to be critically important for...
Investigator(s): Stuart Martin (UMB), Wolfgang Losert (UMCP)
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): software, assay, oncology
Docket: SM-2018-015
-
Therapy Regimen and Methods to Reprogram Cancer Cells and Sensitize Multiple Cancers to PARP Inhibitors
Published Tuesday, September 19, 2017Epigenetics is the regulation of genomic functions including the reversible modification of gene expression through DNA methylation and histone modifications (acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation). Dysregulation of epigenetic modifications can lead to the development of diseases. However, due to the reversible...
Investigator(s): Feyruz Rassool, Stephen Baylin, Carine Robert, Nidal Muvarak, Khadiz Chowdhury
Keyword(s): oncology, epigenetic, combination therapy
Docket: FR-2013-075
-
Training Course for Improving Cognition and Mindfulness
Published Monday, September 18, 2017The invention consists of audio-reorded instructions for eight hours of mindfulness guided imagery, which will have been empirically evaluated in a controlled behavioral treatment study for their beneficial impact on a trainee's cognition and mood above-and-beyond the impact of mere relaxation, due to a subset of instructions pertaining to...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2014-148
-
RFSQP™ Version 1.0
Published Monday, September 18, 2017RFSQP™ is an optimazation algorithhm. It s a set of C functions for the minimization of the maximum of a set of smooth objective functions. RFSQP is an implementation of two algorithms based on Sequential Quadratic Programming, modified so as to generate feasible iterates. It differs from related technology in providing in calling the user...
Keyword(s): Optimization Software
Docket: IS-2000-086
-
Method and System for the Minimization of Expected Cost in Multi-Stage Review
Published Monday, September 18, 2017In civil litigation, e-discovery is the process by which a set of digital documents deemed “responsive” (i.e., relevant) to a certain topic need to be identified within a set of documents, and have to be produced by a producing party to a requesting party unless they are also “privileged” (i.e. contain sensitive information that legally allows...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): e-discovery, cost, risk, reduction, minimization
Docket: IS-2017-066
-
VOLT: Virtual Occupational Language Training
Published Monday, September 18, 2017Currently, there is a need for effective guided immersive learning to supplement a classroom environment, particularly in immersive language learning. Virtual reality (VR) 3D systems offer a flexible and viable solution to this problem.Researchers at the University of Maryland have created VOLT (Virtual Occupational Language Training),...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): virtual reality, language learning
Docket: IS-2017-047
-
Training course on Deliberate and Intuitive Decision Making
Published Sunday, September 10, 2017The decision making course module is a three-hour course unit capable of being delivered on its own or as a supplement to CASL's current divergent thinking training course. The course is divided into 3 one-hour sections including example problems, lecture, and exercises. Brief descriptions of these sections are provided below. Example...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2014-145
-
Encryption Scheme Utilizing the Pattern of Biometric Scanners
Published Sunday, July 9, 2017As mobile devices are increasingly used to send sensitive information through a network, it has become imperative to provide those devices with effective but compact encryption schemes to secure the data. Biometric information has been used to secure the operation of the mobile devices themselves, but such systems do not prevent the interception...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2016-019