Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Amount

$369,896.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

Targeting CD8+ T Cells to Prevent B Cell Destruction The overarching goal of this proposal is to develop a method for blocking the autoreactive immune response directed at islet cell self components. Our approach is to delete antigen specific T cells us