Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Amount

$238,616.00

Award Date

8/01/2009

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

The long-term objective of this proposal is to elucidate the cellular basis for bone marrow failure (BMF) in X-linked Dyskeratosis Congenita (X-DC), an inherited disease characterized by early mortality due to aplastic anemia. X-DC is one of the main inhe