Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$556,784.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

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

Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer in the United States, exceeding breast, colorectal, prostate, and melanoma malignancies combined. Of all newly diagnosed lung cancers, greater than eighty percent of these malignancies are non-small cell lung ca