Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$133,600.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Cardiac tissue injury during myocardial infarction often leads to congestive heart failure. The field of tissue engineering offers the promise of generating a muscle patch that would structurally and functionally repair tissue damage resulting from infarc