Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$34,781.00

Award Date

6/22/2009

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 pathologic proteolytic activation of digestive zymogens (primarily proteases such as chymotrypsinogen) within pancreatic acinar cells is a key step in initiating acute pancreatitis. Our laboratory examines extracellular factors and intracellular mecha