Primary Recipient

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$782,500.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Inflammatory destruction of target organs in autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), begins with the emigration of effector cells from the microcirculation. Suppression of inflammatory leukocyte extravsation could provide protection aga