Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$968,763.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

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

Develop transgenic animal models that are informative for understanding chronic inflammation in humans. Macrophages play a key role in the pathogenesis of multiple chronic inflammatory diseases. Studies using knockout mice have allowed investigators to ex