Grant: WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Amount
$845,000.00
Award Date
6/04/2009
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
This project examines the early steps leading to an atherosclerotic lesion as a consequence of the interaction between an immune system cell, the macrophage, with lipoproteins in the wall of blood vessels. These atherosclerotic lesions can lead to heart