Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$377,520.00

Award Date

5/17/2009

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

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease, causing an estimated 33,370 deaths per year in the USA with a five-year survival rate of only 5%. The molecular hallmark of this cancer is an activating mutation in the small GTPase KRas, which is well known to