Primary Recipient

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Amount

$845,000.00

Award Date

9/25/2009

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

Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2) is a monocyte-restricted member of a protein family critically involved in the activation of NF-?B in response to certain intracellular microbial infection. Dysfunctional mutations in the NOD2 gene underl